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The Gifts of the Body

by Rebecca Brown · 1994

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An emotionally wrenching work of fiction about a health-care worker who tenders compassion and love to victims of AIDS, by an author who "strips her language of convention to lay bare the ferocious rituals of love and need."—New York Times Book Review

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adult
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short · 176 pages
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