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Author Downs, Robert C. S.

Title The fifth season / Robert C.S. Downs.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint, [2000]
©2000

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 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F DOWNS    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  DOWNS, ROBERT    Check Shelf
Description 246 pages ; 22 cm
Summary Sixty-year-old Teddy Neel, an able professor, is son to Able and Lillian Neel, who are living and dying in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The rift between father and son has been wide at times. Now Able, a captain of industry in his prime, is losing a kidney to cancer, while Lillian, who is largely blind, is in the midstages of Alzheimer's, a matter cloaked by her husband's protective ruses. As Teddy visits them, their lives and true characters -- and his own -- are revealed in the stark minutiae of the every day. In on-rushing and meticulous present tense, Downs let us witness the love and beauty, the pain and frustration, of the day-to-day needs in The Fifth Season.
Subject Aging parents -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Adult children -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Adult children -- Family relationships. (OCoLC)fst00797230
Aging parents -- Family relationships. (OCoLC)fst00800373
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Domestic fiction.
Other Form: Online version: Downs, Robert C.S. Fifth season. Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint, ©2000 (OCoLC)606275413
ISBN 1582430489 (acid-free paper)
9781582430485 (acid-free paper)
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