Clara Burns, creative writing instructor, conducts Friday afternoon classes at the Las Hermigas senior center Her students, like most retirees, are short in the tooth, grinding their chompers to the gum lime; agonizing over wrinkles; sagging pecs, and bulging pots of cottage cheese-like flesh Most oldsters, armed with Viagra and Metamucil, ожтйм are in rumpus rooms watching reruns of "I Love Lucy," sponsored by companies offering burial insurance and adult diapers Nordic Track machines are used to hang clothes on that aren't completely dry Clara's students are pecking away at future Stones for Ibarra She inspires her writers with tales of a misspent youth, followed by stories of her misspent adulthood Like a band of geriatric pilgrims from The Canterbury Tales, Clara's writing students regale one another with stories of how it used to be Their stories are the sort Flannery O'Connor might have written if she had been in the Border Patrol The Writing Class creates a bridge - enabling readers to span intergenerational crevasses Mid-life, transforming crises are narrated showing how we got to be like this; why old people seem like doofuses, while the young are not only restless but dweeb-like.  Зазубренный2009 г Мягкая обложка, 136 стр ISBN 1608300021.