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One true thing

One true thing

by Anna Quindlen

1994Domestic fictionEuthanasiaFictionLegal storiesModern Literature
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First lines

I remember that the last completely normal day we ever had in our lives, my brothers and I, was an ordinary day much like this one, a muggy August-into-September weekday, the sky low and gray over Langhorne, clouds as flat as an old comforter hanging between the two slight ridges that edged the town.

About this book

A New York psychiatrist recounts her mother's death for which she was arrested. At the time, Dr. Ellen Gulden was accused of killing her mother with an overdose of morphine, a charge in part based on a high school essay in which she advocated euthanasia. By the author of Object Lessons.

Themes & subjects

Domestic fictionEuthanasiaFictionLegal storiesModern LiteratureMother-Child Relations
First published 1994

Setting

United States

About the author

Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen

Author

Anna Quindlen

First published

1994

Pages

320

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

13

Language

English

Publisher

Dell

ISBN

9780385319201

Where to buy

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