Turn of Mind
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- Titel: Turn of Mind / Alice LaPlante
- Person(en): LaPlante, Alice
- Sprache: Englisch
- Originalsprache: Englisch
- Umfang: 1 online resource
- Erschienen: 2011
- ISBN/Preis: 9780802195562 (electronic bk)
- Schlagwörter: Fiction ; Thriller ; Electronic books
- Link(s): http://elibraryhh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=3BC72202-C817-4E4D-94D4-C195ACD230DC Excerpt
Inhalt: A stunning first novel, both literary and thriller, about a retired orthopedic surgeon with dementia, Turn of Mind has already received worldwide attention. With unmatched patience and a pulsating intensity, Alice LaPlante brings us deep into a brilliant woman's deteriorating mind, where the impossibility of recognizing reality can be both a blessing and a curse.As the book opens, Dr. Jennifer White's best friend, Amanda, who lived down the block, has been killed, and four fingers surgically removed from her hand. Dr. White is the prime suspect and she herself doesn't know whether she did it. Told in White's own voice, fractured and eloquent, a picture emerges of the surprisingly intimate, complex alliance between these life-long friends_two proud, forceful women who were at times each other's most formidable adversaries. As the investigation into the murder deepens and White's relationships with her live-in caretaker and two...
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