The Gifts of the Body
by Rebecca Brown
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The narrator is volunteer in a home for people with aids and the novel describes the wear and tear on her nervous system as patient after patient dies. The breaking point comes when a fellow worker contracts the disease, whereupon she quits. By the author of The Children's Crusade.Tags
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assolutamente da leggere. non solo mette in contatto con la realtà dell'AIDS,ma lo fa con una delicatezza ed una tenerezza che non sfociano mai nel tragico... il malato ha una sua dignità e gli aspetti pesanti della malattia ci vengono trasmessi da piccole cose,piccoli gesti di coloro che circondano il malato,e spesso dal malato stesso. emozionante e reale.
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Rebecca Brown is the author of seven novels, and her short stories are widely anthologized. Her novel The Gifts of the Body won a Lamda Literary Award and has been translated into several languages. Brown divides her time between Seattle and Vermont, where she is a faculty member in the Master of Fine Arts program at Goddard College
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