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THIRTEEN-YEAR OLD EVA wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything since the picnic on the beach. Her mother leans over the bed and begins to explain. A traffic accident, a long coma . . .But there is something, Eva senses, that she's not being told. There is a price she must pay to be alive at all. What have they done, with their amazing medical techniques, to save her?From the Paperback edition.
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Grave, contemporary, classical in form and earnest.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Peter Dickinson
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Dell, Laurel Leaf, Longman
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783257226546
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