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PUBLISHED
New York : Random House, [1994]
©1994
©1994
EDITION
[Various editions]
DESCRIPTION
210 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
067943299X (acid-free paper), 9780679432999 (acid-free paper), 0440221099 (pbk.), 9780440221098 (pbk.), 9780385318785 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Also published: New York, N.Y. : Delta Trade Paperbacks, [1997], c1994. 210 p
The gripping story of a woman dying from cancer. The narrator is Ann Stanley, an unhappily married nurse. All the more reason for her to admire Ruth Thomas who leaves her husband, even though it means leaving her son, too. A bond develops between the two and when Ruth is struck with cancer Ann helps her die, the process described in minute detail. By the author of Durable Goods
570L
Decoding demand: 96 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 84 (very high) Structure demand: 86 (very high)