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Genre/Form: | Large type books Psychological fiction Fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alice Sebold |
ISBN: | 9780316004305 0316004308 9780739488560 0739488562 |
OCLC Number: | 777895103 |
Description: | 447 pages (large print) ; 21 cm |
Responsibility: | Alice Sebold. |
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Abstract:
Within pages, Helen, a middle-aged, depressed divorc, kills her elderly mother; she spends the next 24 hours reliving her miserable childhood and her attempts to break free of it, coming to the realization that she "had seen the yawning tide that was her mother's need and fallen in." It's not until Helen reaches high school that she realizes her mother is mentally ill, her father is emotionally absent, and her primary purpose is to be her mother's "proxy in the world and to bring that world back home."
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