TITLE: OLD FRIENDS
AUTHOR: TRACY KIDDER
PUBLISHER: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN; 352 PAGES; $22.95
THE BOTTOM LINE: An uplifting, wry, admirable attempt to humanize that most depressing locale -- a nursing home.
% The real-life scene reads as if Samuel Beckett had rewritten the script of The Sunshine Boys. The place is Linda Manor, a brand-new, as-good-as-it-gets nursing home in Northampton, Massachusetts. The characters are Lou Freed, 90, a nurturing, near blind optimist, and his sardonic roommate, Joe Torchio, 72, half-paralyzed by a stroke. As a sympathetic nurse gives the two men their nightly ration of multicolored pills, she reminds them that they...
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