In the Middle of All This
Martin Kreutzel and his ill sister, Elizabeth, are as close as grown siblings can be-they have an essential connection. However, she lives with her husband outside of London and he lives with his wife and two children in a small Pennsylvania college town where he and his wife are both professors. Neither one of them likes the atmosphere there but they both have tenure track positions and can raise their two children in a safe neighborhood, in a house...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0151008345
ISBN13:9780151008346
Release Date:August 2002
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin
Length:264 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Elegant Craftsmanship
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
One of the characters in this uncompromising book remarks that life always takes place "in the middle of all this," and it certainly does. This is a long journey in a short book and each page is fresh, beautifully conceived and wonderfully well-written. What a pleasure!
Powerful, moving, beautiful
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
There's going to be a wide disparity of opinions about this book, since it deals with a hot-button, emotional subject: a sibling dying of cancer. For my money, the book and especially the writing are on the mark. For all its seriousness, it's also brutally funny, as we follow Martin self-destructing as he tries to give solace to his sister.
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