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The rowing lesson

Anne Landsman

2007279 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2007
first published
  • 2008Granta · 279 pages · ENGISBN 9781862079892
  • 2009Granta · ENGISBN 9781847080707
  • 2007Soho Press · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9781569474693

Utterly convincing and vivid fictional portrait of a South African life. Pregnant with her first child, Betsy Klein is summoned from her home in the USA to her father's hospital bed in South Africa. Harold Klein is sensual, irascible, a passionately committed doctor, and a complex husband and father. As Betsy sits and waits for him to stir from his coma, she is compelled to imagine his life.

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ThemesFamily
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