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When Madeline was young a novel

Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World brings us a rich and loving novel about a non-traditional family in the aftermath of a terrible accident. When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers a head injury in a bicycle crash, she is left wit...

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Main Author: Hamilton, Jane, 1957 July 13-
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language: English
Published: 2006.
Subjects:
People with mental disabilities > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Electronic books.
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Summary: Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World brings us a rich and loving novel about a non-traditional family in the aftermath of a terrible accident. When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers a head injury in a bicycle crash, she is left with the mental capabilities of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own. Inspired in part by Elizabeth Spencer's Light in the Piazza, Hamilton offers an honest and exquisite portrait of how a family tragedy forever shapes the boundaries of love. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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ISBN: 9780385519984
Author Notes: Jane Hamilton was born in 1957. She is the author of The Book of Ruth, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction. A Map of the World, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year was named one of the top ten books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, The Miami Herald, and People. Both The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World have been selections of Oprah's Book Club. A Map of the World was recently made into a major motion picture, starring Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore. Her work, The Short History of a Prince, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998.

She lives in Rochester, Wisconsin.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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