Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary - Hardcover

Brown, Rebecca

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1862076421 ISBN 13: 9781862076426

Verlag: Granta Books, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

In 1997 Rebecca Brown's mother, Barbara Wildman Brown, became ill with cancer. Here, the author traces, in sparse prose, the slow, gradual erosion of her mother's health, her dignity and her life. In 17 short chapters, from "anaemia", "twilight sleep" and "metastasis", to "unction", "cremation" and "remains", the author describes the family's journey through her mother's illness and death. Written unsentimentally, and sometime with painful honesty, "Excerpts From a Family Medical Dictionary" is a moving commemoration of a life and death.

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Rebecca Brown is the author of seven novels, including The Haunted House, The Children's Crusade and The Terrible Girls, and her short stories have appeared in many anthologies. She divides her time between Seattle and Vermont, where she is a faculty member in the Master of Fine Arts programme at Goddard College.

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• Verlag: Granta Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1862076421
• ISBN 13: 9781862076426
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 108
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