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At Risk
At Risk
Author: Alice Hoffman
They were an ordinary American family; Polly, a wife, mother, and struggling photographer; her husband, Ivan, an astronomer; their son, Charlie, an eight-year-old obsessed with dinosaurs...and Amanda, eleven, who dreams of becoming a great gymnast. Amanda is blessed with unusual strength and determination. But when she is diagnosed with AIDS, sh...  more »
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PBS Market Price: $8.09 or $4.19+1 credit
ISBN-13: 9780425117385
ISBN-10: 0425117383
Publication Date: 9/1/1989
Pages: 275
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 31 ratings
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 4
A sad but realistic story of a typical american family dealing with the AIDS disease within their family. Very well written. It had an unsatisfying ending for me though...I didn't feel closure.
CharleneY avatar reviewed At Risk on + 80 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I don't like Alice Hoffman in general but would say this is her best book that I know of. It's a touching and sad story, even if its telling is slightly sentimental.
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Helpful Score: 1
Hoffman writes so simply about human passions that her characters are branded into your memory
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Helpful Score: 1
This book was sad but kept my interest............
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Helpful Score: 1
the moving story of a small town American family discovering their child has AIDS and how it affects the family, friends and community.
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I thought the book was very strange as it was difficult to understand what was going on.
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Wow,a really great story of a family living with AIDS
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Sad story.
Kittymama avatar reviewed At Risk on + 107 more book reviews
Probably destined to become the first best-selling novel about AIDS, Hoffman's newest work is heart-wrenching. Star gymnast on her school team, 11-year-old Amanda yearns toward adolescence. When her illness is diagnosed (she'd had a blood transfusion for an appendectomy), her familyphotographer mother Polly, astronomer father Ivan, and 8-year-old brother Charlieexperience the expected disbelief, anger, and sorrow. However, because Amanda has AIDS they also experience rejection by old friends and trouble at school. As Amanda's life dwindles away, the family struggles, begins to dissolve, but finally reconnects. First-rate "contemporary issue" fiction that will leave few dry eyes.
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Insightful story of a family's struggle to keep sanity in spite of tragedy.

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