Necessary Madness

by Jenn Crowell

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A widow's coming to terms with her grief. She is Gloria, an American teacher in England whose husband died of leukemia and left her with a small son. Helping overcome the woman's sorrow is an acquaintance of her husband, a widower who in addition to losing his wife, lost his child. A first novel.

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Canonical title
Necessary Madness
Original title
Necessary madness
Original publication date
1997
First words
My husband, Bill, was buried nine years to the day that my father died.

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
LCC
PS3553 .R5928 .N43Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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