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Scar Tissue

by Michael Ignatieff

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Pretty good for a man vieing to be Prime Minister of Canada. Auto-biographical elements are definitly part of the plot. Endearing story of a family members descent into ALS. (

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1993 (London, Chatto & Windus)

1994 (1st American edition, New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)

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Booker Prize Shortlist (1993)

MIND Book of the Year/Allen Lane Award (1993)

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For A. G. I.
For J. A. G. I.

So by this infirmity may I be perfected, by
this completed. So in this darkness,
may I be clothed in light.

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I do not want to remember her last hour.

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1st American ed. (1994): Scar tissue / Michael Ignatieff (novel)

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