- Fiction, People with disabilities, Cerebral palsy, Euthanasia
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.
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Earnest, spare, grave and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Terry Trueman
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 121
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton, HarperCollins Publishers, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780340805992
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