Kim Edwards

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The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Beschreibung

Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son is perfectly healthy, but his daughter has Down's syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect his wife, he asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution. Instead, the nurse disappears into another city to raise the child herself.

Autor

Kim Edwards is the author of the short-story collection The Secrets of the Fire King, which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award, and has won the Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turtleback Books
• Seitenzahl: 401
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 130mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781606861660
• ISBN-10: 1606861662
• Artikelnr.: 31076954

Rezensionen

Crafted with language so lovely you have to reread the passages just to be captivated all over again . . . this is simply a beautiful book Jodi Picoult