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The Doctor's Daughter
The Doctor's Daughter
Author: Hilma Wolitzer
In her first work of fiction in more than a decade, award-winning novelist Hilma Wolitzer brilliantly renders the intimate details of ordinary life and exposes a host of hidden truths. The Doctor?s Daughter is a haunting portrait of a woman coming to terms with her family history and the fallibility of memory. — One morning, Alice Brill awakes wi...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780345485854
ISBN-10: 0345485858
Pages: 288
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  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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3.1 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Helpful Score: 1
This book "grabbed" me almost immediately. It seemed very real, and I found myself easily relating to the narrator as she struggles with a "son gone bad," a marriage that is breaking up, a father with dementia, and other real life events.
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The writing is superb but story was slow. I kept reading to find thte answer to the mystery which in the end was formulaic and predictable.
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The question of who is she as a middle aged woman - a wife? a mother? a daugher? is the the focus of this book about very real and ordinary middle-age issues.
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Well written excellent characters


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