- AIDS (Disease), Fiction, Home health aides, Patients
A woman volunteer who cares for people with AIDS narrates a poignant account of the clients she comes to love in her role as a home-care aide, in a bittersweet novel about life, illness, death, and remembrance. By the author of The Children's Crusade.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Rebecca Brown
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 165
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060926533
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