Long for this world

Main Author:	Byers, Michael.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
Subjects:	Geneticists > Fiction. Genetic disorders in children > Fiction. Aging > Prevention > Fiction. Austrian Americans > Fiction. Women immigrants > Fiction. Suicide victims > Fiction. Sick children > Fiction. Seattle (Wash.) > Fiction. Psychological fiction > Washington (State). Medical fiction.

Physical Description:	432 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	039589171X
Author Notes:	Michael Byers's story collection The Coast of Good Intentions won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Long for This World was featured on the History Channel's Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine." The recipient of a Whiting Foundation Writer's Award, Byers lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and two children."