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Reckoning
Reckoning
Author: May Sarton
When Laura Spelman learns that she will not get well, she looks on this last illness as a journey during which she must reckon up her life, give up the nonessential, and concentrate on what she calls "the real connections." The heart of the story is Laura's realization that for her the real connections have been with womenher brilliant and devas...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780575027503
ISBN-10: 0575027509
Publication Date: 1/31/1980
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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sari-lynn avatar reviewed Reckoning on + 207 more book reviews
No one else writes with May Sarton's insight.
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"When Laura Spellman learns that she has inoperable cancer, her one wish is to be allowed to die in her own way, with as little medical intervention as possible..."

The book was very readable, but I felt that in some ways the author's imagination--or lack thereof--had led her to describe things that were unlikely to happen in real life.


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