Tabla de Contenidos: “…Old age, literature, and potential -- Situating old women : fields of inquiry -- The mirror has two faces : Simone de Beauvoir's and Margaret Laurence's ambivalent representations -- Generation gaps and the potential of grandmotherhood -- Here, every minute is ninety seconds : fictional perspectives on nursing home care -- Living life seriatim : friendship and interdependence in late-life fiction and semifiction…”