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At Risk
At Risk
Author: Alice Hoffman
In a novel the Village Voice calls "memorable" and "striking," Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS... "Brilliant...explosive...heart-rending." --Chicago Tribune "Graceful...emotionally potent...A cathartic tale that begs us, with heartbreaking eloquence, to st...  more »--Glamour "Within pages, the reader falls in love with this very real little girl... Moving, dramatic and painfully human."--Miami Herald "Compelling power...tenderness and perceptiveness." --New York Times "I have rarely encountered a work that has moved me as strongly... extraordinary." --Mademoiselle "Deeply impressive...powerful." --Newsweek "Deeply moving...Sensitivity and empathy...radiate from this beautiful novel." --Chicago Sun-Times "Compassionate...This is a serious, honest novel." --Village Voice "Tender, strikingly simple and deeply memorable." --Kirkus Reviews "An affecting novel of exquisite delicacy, with humor, warmth, and sensitivity. Miss Hoffman heals wounds with the gentle touch of an angel." --Joseph Heller
ISBN-13: 9780833530899
ISBN-10: 0833530895
Publication Date: 10/1999
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Publisher: Rebound by Sagebrush
Book Type: School Library Binding
Other Versions: Paperback, 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.
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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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This book was sad but kept my interest............
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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.
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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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