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The Gifts of the Body

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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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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 Paperbacks
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.
Edition Number:
1
Edition Description:
1st HarperPerennial ed.
Series Volume:
9
Publication Date:
September 1995
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
180
Dimensions:
8.00x5.29x.44 in. .37 lbs.
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