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For those already suffering from CF these are exciting but still trying times. The promise of new discoveries is tempered by the knowledge that most patients past puberty have already suffered too much lung damage to be saved by even the most sophisticated therapies. Younger patients have a chance, but...
Jassel's predicament makes A Landing on the Sun both humorous and sad, and thus the novel will neither surprise nor disappoint readers familiar with Frayn's most recent work, The Trick of It. Like most of his plays, novels, and screenplays, A Lnading on the Sun is a comic...
To Die For follows the well-covered case of New Hampshire high school instructor Pamela Smart, convicted in 1991 of persuading her teenage lover to kill her husband. In Maynard's novel the cold-blooded, career-obsessed killer is Suzanne Maretto, who hungers to become the next Barbara Walters. Her...
When Brown's turn came, he also peeled to his shirtsleeves, but wound up resembling a somewhat ill-tempered Peter Lawford as he quoted Gandhi and Vaclav Havel. With no compromise of either his academic references or his gravely aggressive tones, he hammered away not only at the Republicans but...
If Turner can sound lighthearted about his death obsession, it is because he does feel much better about life these days. One of the main reasons is that at the urging of his second wife Janie, who was hoping to save their marriage, he began to see an Atlanta psychiatrist...