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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Published: Sep 1989
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $22.00
Pages: 272
In a novel the Village Voice calls 'memorable' and 'striking,' Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS...
'Brilliant...explosive...heart-rending.'
--Chicago Tribune
'Graceful...emotionally potent...A cathartic tale that begs us, with heartbreaking eloquence, to stop looking the other way.'
--Glamour
'Within pages, the reader falls in love with this very real little girl... Moving, dramatic and painfully human.'
--Miami Herald
'Compelling power...tenderness and perceptiveness.'
--New York Times
'I have rarely encountered a work that has moved me as strongly... extraordinary.'
--Mademoiselle
'Deeply impressive...powerful.'
--Newsweek
'Deeply moving...Sensitivity and empathy...radiate from this beautiful novel.'
--Chicago Sun-Times
'Compassionate...This is a serious, honest novel.'
--Village Voice
'Tender, strikingly simple and deeply memorable.'
--Kirkus Reviews
'An affecting novel of exquisite delicacy, with humor, warmth, and sensitivity. Miss Hoffman heals wounds with the gentle touch of an angel.'
--Joseph Heller