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Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary

Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary

Rebecca Brown
4.2/5 ( ratings)
In 1997 Rebecca Brown's mother, Barbara Wildman Brown, became ill with cancer. In Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary the author traces, in sparse prose, the slow, gradual erosion of her mother's health, her dignity and her life. In seventeen short chapters, from 'anaemia', 'twilight sleep' and 'metastasis', to 'unction', 'cremation' and 'remains', the author describes the family's journey through her mother's illness and death. Written unsentimentally, and with sometimes painful honesty, Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary is an extraordinarily moving commemoration of a life and death.
Language
English
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Granta Books (Uk)
Release
August 01, 2005
ISBN
186207738X
ISBN 13
9781862077386

Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary

Rebecca Brown
4.2/5 ( ratings)
In 1997 Rebecca Brown's mother, Barbara Wildman Brown, became ill with cancer. In Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary the author traces, in sparse prose, the slow, gradual erosion of her mother's health, her dignity and her life. In seventeen short chapters, from 'anaemia', 'twilight sleep' and 'metastasis', to 'unction', 'cremation' and 'remains', the author describes the family's journey through her mother's illness and death. Written unsentimentally, and with sometimes painful honesty, Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary is an extraordinarily moving commemoration of a life and death.
Language
English
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Granta Books (Uk)
Release
August 01, 2005
ISBN
186207738X
ISBN 13
9781862077386

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