The Gifts of the Body
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0060926538 / Publisher: Harper Perennial, August 1995
A fictional account of how the AIDS epidemic affects everyday people is told from the perspective of a compassionate health-care worker, whose gentle ministrations to her patients cause her to become a witness to pain, grief, and love. Reprint.
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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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