The heart
Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. Returning home, exhausted, the driver lets the car drift off the road into a tree. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one is sent through the windshield. He is declared brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital. His heart is still beating. The Heart takes place over the twenty-four hours surrounding a fatal accident and a resulting heart transplant as life is taken from a young man and given to a woman close to death. In gorgeous, ruminative prose it examines the deepest feelings of everyone involved--grieving parents, hardworking doctors and nurses--as they navigate decisions of life and death.
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Heart > Transplantation > Patients > Fiction. Organ donors > Fiction. |
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Large print books. Psychological fiction. |
- ISBN: 9781410491282
- ISBN: 1410491285
- Physical Description 347 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
- Edition Large print edition.
- Publisher Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2016.
- Copyright ©2016