- Memory in old age, Women, Identity (Psychology), Uncertainty
It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know-what year it is, major events in the lives of her children.
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Contemplative, grave, character-led and open-ended.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Jo Walton
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 344
- Publisher
- DENOEL, Editions Denoël, Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Japanese, Italian, French, Korean
- ISBN
- 9780765332653
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About Jo Walton · 1964
Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet.
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