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254 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with black and red lettering to spine over black boards in original jacket. First edition. When Laura Spelman, sixty, an editor at a Boston publishing house, learns that she has cancer and will not get well, her one wish is that she be allowed to die in her own way. She looks on this last illness as a journey during which she must reckon up he life - give up the nonessentials and concentrate on what she calls "the real connections." As the year unfolds, Laura realizes that for her the most significant connections have been - and are - with women: her brilliant and devastating mother, a difficult daughter, a lesbian writer she is advising, and most of all a woman friend she knew when was young. Condition: Jacket with small stain to back else near fine in like jacket.
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- Title A Reckoning
- Author Mary Sarton; May Sarton
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 254
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Date 1978
- ISBN 9780393088281 / 0393088286
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.61 x 6.01 x 1.14 in (21.87 x 15.27 x 2.90 cm)
- Reading level 840
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Terminally ill - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 78009691
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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