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The Deal of a Lifetime
The Deal of a Lifetime
Author: Fredrik Backman, Alice Menzies (Translator)
A father and a son are seeing each other for the first time in years. The father has a story to share before it’s too late. He tells his son about a courageous little girl lying in a hospital bed a few miles away. She’s a smart kid—smart enough to know that she won’t beat cancer by drawing with crayons all day, but it see...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781501193491
ISBN-10: 150119349X
Publication Date: 10/31/2017
Pages: 96
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 22 ratings
Publisher: Atria Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 58
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This is a beautiful, meaningful novella, a story told by a father to his son on Christmas Eve. In "The Deal of a Lifetime" a five-year-old girl with cancer is confined to the hospital. In a nearby room is another patient, a very wealthy man, a man who has abandoned his family but by his standards is an important man because in his world, with great wealth comes great worth: "I failed with you," he says of his son. "I tried to make you tough. You ended up kind."

Death visit the cancer ward and the father makes the deal of a lifetime. (No spoilers)

Backman puts so much feeling into such a short novella. His writing is concise and yet so full of meaning.


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