East of the mountains
Reminiscing in old age
Colon (Anatomy)
Suicide victims
Seattle (wash.), fiction
Older men
Washington (state), fiction
Surgeons
Physicians, fiction
Suicide
Self-realization
Open Library Staff Picks
Voyages and travels
Cancer
Fiction, psychological
Patients
Large type books
Fiction
It is mid-October, 1997, harvest time in the Columbia Basin of central Washington state, a rich apple- and pear-growing region. Ben Givens, recently widowed, is a retired heart surgeon, once admired for his steadiness of hand, his precision, his endurance. He has terminal colon cancer. While Ben doe…
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