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Cargando... The Assembler of Parts: A Novelpor Raoul Wientzen
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is an extraordinary first novel and readers may want to have tissues handy as they read it. The author is a pediatrician and professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University, which at times results in the text being a bit overloaded with medical terms with which the average reader will not be familiar; however, once you get past that the story will consume you. It explores, largely from the view of the child, the challenges, joys, and realities of being and raising a child with severe disabilities. It offers life lessons to anyone who reads it and does not spare the medical, legal, and religious professions as it exposes the shortcomings and hypocrisy of all three. It is a painful and touching story of one family's and one little girl's struggles and love. I highly recommend it. The author is willing and eager to participate in bookclub discussions, either in person or remotely. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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A dual Kirkus Best Fiction and Best Debut Fiction selection, this stunning novel is an emotional fable about love, forgiveness, and what most makes us human. At the outset of this extraordinary first novel, eight-year-old Jess finds herself in heaven reviewing her short life. She is guided in this by a being she calls the Assembler of Parts, and her task seems to be to grasp her life's meaning. From the moment of her birth, it was obvious that Jess is unlike other children, for she suffers from a syndrome of birth defects that leaves her flawed. But by her very imperfections, she has a unique ability to draw love from--and heal--those around her, from the parents who come together over her to the grandmother whose guilt she assuages, to the family friend she helps reconcile with an angry past. Yet, it is only when she comes to her sudden death--for which her parents are suspected of neglect, unleashing a chain of events beyond her healing--that her sense of her life truly begin to crystallize. And only then does the Assembler's purpose become clear. With prose that is rich in emotion and eloquence and that distills poetry from the language of medicine and the words for ordinary things, Raoul Wientzen has delivered a novel of rare beauty that speaks to subjects as profound as faith, what makes us human, and the value of a life. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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