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The Gifts of the Body

by Rebecca Brown

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ISBN13: 9780060926533
ISBN10: 0060926538
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Delivering a voice of inspiration that transcends the AIDS epidemic, this emotionally wrenching novel speaks to everyone who has ever given or received the gift of compassion. A volunteer health-care worker delivers small gifts of daily life--a sponge bath, a hot meal--and gains in return an opportunity to watch and to witness, to mourn and to remember.

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An emotionally wrenching work of fiction about a health-care worker who tenders compassion and love to victims of AIDS, by an author who "strips her language of convention to lay bare the ferocious rituals of love and need."--New York Times Book Review

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: Emma, March 13, 2007 (view all comments by Emma)
The gauze of sheer humanity in which Rebecca Brown wraps her readers is far more than poignancy: each of the characters in these short fictions becomes achingly palpable. For anyone who has provided care for the terminally ill; any of us who has suffered loss to disease; and everyone prepared for a massage of the heart while holding finely-wrought tales of mortality, this book is essential reading.
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ISBN:: 9780060926533
Author:: Brown, Rebecca
Publisher:: Harper Perennial
Author:: by Rebecca Brown
Location:: New York
Subject:: General
Subject:: AIDS (Disease)
Subject:: Body, human
Subject:: Home health aides
Subject:: Aids
Subject:: Visiting housekeepers.
Subject:: General Fiction
Subject:: AIDS (Disease) -- Patients.
Subject:: Literature-A to Z
Edition Number:: 1
Edition Description:: Trade PB
Series Volume:: 9
Publication Date:: 19950831
Binding:: TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Pages:: 180
Dimensions:: 8.00x5.29x.44 in. .37 lbs.

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