Long for this World

Long for this World
ISBN-10
039589171X
ISBN-13
9780395891711
Series
Long for This World
Category
Fiction
Pages
432
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Michael Byers

Description

Specializing in a rare disease that causes children to age drastically, Dr. Henry Moss is confronted with an ethical dilemma when he meets a family whose two children are affected in dramatically different ways by the same disease.

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