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Hamilton, Jane, 1957 July 13-
Subjects
People with mental disabilities -- Fiction.
Brain damage -- Patients -- Fiction.
Accident victims -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Extended families -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Wisconsin -- Fiction.
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Hamilton, Jane, 1957 July 13-
People with mental disabilities -- Fiction.
Brain damage -- Patients -- Fiction.
Accident victims -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Extended families -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Wisconsin -- Fiction.
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When
Madeline
was
young
: a
novel
/ by Jane Hamilton.
by
Hamilton, Jane, 1957 July 13-
Doubleday : c2006.
Call #:
FICTION HAM
Subjects
People with mental disabilities -- Fiction.
Brain damage -- Patients -- Fiction.
Accident victims -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Extended families -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Wisconsin -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780385516716
0385516711
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
[274] p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"
When
Aaron Maciver’s beautiful
young
wife,
Madeline
, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a seven-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. Narrated by Aaron's son Mac,
WHEN
MADELINE
WAS
YOUNG
chronicles the Maciver family through the decades, from Mac’s childhood growing up in Wisconsin with
Madeline
and his cousin Buddy, through the Vietnam War, his years as a husband with children of his own, and his cousin's involvement in the subsequent Gulf Wars. Jane Hamilton, with not only her usual keen observations of human relationships but also her humor, deftly explores the Macivers' unusual situation as she examines notions of childhood (through Mac and Buddy’s actual youth as well as Madeline’s infantilization) and a rivalry between Buddy’s and Mac’s families that spans decades and various wars. She captures the pleasures and frustrations of marriage and family and exposes the role that past relationships, rivalries, and regrets inevitably play in the lives of adults."--Publisher.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
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