Long odds, but they did come home, and genetics was still an obscure enough science that most people discovered there was such a thing as Hickman only when their child began to look funny at the age of two or three.
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.
Marlowe defined the apologists' position for modern times; and a few years later another Cambridge graduate, a young lawyer and philosopher, Francis Bacon, defined the opposing position. The grand project of Bacon's life was the ...
“[A] searching and surprisingly witty look at the scientific odds against tomorrow.” —Timothy Ferris Jonathan Weiner—winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and one ...
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.
Now, she renders the compelling story of a troubled family straddling cultures, fleeing and searching, in her piercing and profoundly humane first novel.
Long for This World features the best of Ronald Wallace's work from his previous collections of poetry--Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks , Tunes for Bears to Dance To, People and...
Dr Henry Moss is a decent, gentle, physician whose life work is the study of Hickman Syndrome.
... His mother. Even his daughters passed through sleep. The lamp turned off, the bird, the star, the bright amphibian. And then they all were gone, these lights of his. And he, at last, was left with dark enough. Long for This World: New ...