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Publication
Knopf (1994), Edition: 1st, 339 pages
Description
A girl prepares for death while hoping for a donor for a kidney transplant, her mother refusing to be one. A study in the different ways family and friends react in a crisis. By the author of Heading West.
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LibraryThing member delphimo
The book's opening scene provides fun and excitement that soon changes to boredom. The book contains no chapters, just one long and wordy descent into the chasm. The books description predicted the death of the main character, and that death was long in arriving. I expected a better novel. I am
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sure that Doris Betts thought she was emulating James Joyce when she wrote this stream on consciousness, but the method deteriorated the story. Show Less
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Original language
English