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Patty O'Higgins is a young woman suffering from lupus, a disease surrounded by ancient prejudice and...
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Patty O'Higgins is a young woman suffering from lupus, a disease surrounded by ancient prejudice and fear because of one of its occasional side effects, a wolf-like distortion of the face. Mirroring her illness are strange events in her home community in the west of Ireland - hatred and anger prowl the mountains, friend turns against friend and everywhere is the sense of an overpowering malevolence.Venturing into the no-man's-land that lies between the warring forces of our existence - good and evil, sickness and health, love and death - John F. Deane emerges triumphantly with a cautionary but surpassingly compassionate novel.
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