At Risk

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In a novel the Village Voice calls "memorable" and "striking," Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS..."Brilliant...explosive...heart-rending." --Chicago Tribune "Graceful...emotionally potent...A cathartic tale that begs us, with heartbreaking eloquence, to stop looking the other way." --Glamour "Within pages, the reader falls in love with this very real little girl... Moving, dramatic and painfully human." --Miami Herald "Compelling power...tenderness and perceptiveness." --New York Times "I have rarely encountered a work that has moved me as strongly... extraordinary." --Mademoiselle "Deeply impressive...powerful." --Newsweek "Deeply moving...Sensitivity and empathy...radiate from this beautiful novel." --Chicago Sun-Times "Compassionate...This is a serious, honest novel." --Village Voice "Tender, strikingly simple and deeply memorable." --Kirkus Reviews "An affecting novel of exquisite delicacy, with humor, warmth, and sensitivity. Miss Hoffman heals wounds with the gentle touch of an angel." --Joseph Heller
A stunning national bestseller, here is the story of a family in the tradition of Ordinary People and Terms of Endearment. The Farrells are a family as ordinary and special as any family. There are parents, a son, and an eleven-year-old daughter with big dreams of gymnastic gold. But a shocking tragedy consumes them, and it becomes all too clear that when it comes to love, everyone is at risk. A Book-of-the Month Club Main Selection with movie rights optioned by 20th Century Fox.
A compassionately told story about upper middle class parents and the events that befall them when their eight-year-old daughter is diagnosed as having AIDS.

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Editions

At risk

(1988, Putnam [English])
ID: OL23259373M
Pages: 219

At risk

(1988, Macmillan London [English])
ISBN-10: 0333473752 ISBN-13: 9780333473757 - English
Pages: 219

At Risk

(31 August 2006, Pan Books, GBR [English])
ISBN-10: 0330308408 ISBN-13: 9780330308403 - English
Pages: 224; Ppb.

At Risk

(1 November 1989, Simon & Schuster Audio, USA [English])
ISBN-10: 0671676962 ISBN-13: 9780671676964 - English
Audio Cassette

At Risk

(8 January 1989, Macmillan Library Reference [English])
ISBN-10: 0816147485 ISBN-13: 9780816147489 - English
Pages: 306; Leather/Fine Binding

At Risk

(1989, Putnam Adult [English])
ISBN-10: 0399133674 ISBN-13: 9780399133671 - English
Pages: 219; Hardcover

At Risk

(1 August 1989, San Val, Incorporated, USA [English])
ISBN-10: 0833530895 ISBN-13: 9780833530899 - English
hardback

At Risk

(8 January 1989, Macmillan Library Reference [English])
ISBN-10: 0816147493 ISBN-13: 9780816147496 - English
Pages: 306; Trade Paperback

At Risk

(22 July 1990, Random House Value Publishing [English])
ISBN-10: 0517055155 ISBN-13: 9780517055151 - English

At Risk

(1 September 1989, Penguin Putnam Inc, USA [English])
ISBN-10: 0425117383 ISBN-13: 9780425117385 - English
Pages: 275; Size: 180 X 110; paperback

At Risk

(1 November 1998, Berkley Trade, USA [English])
ISBN-10: 0425165299 ISBN-13: 9780425165294 - English
Pages: 272; paperback

At Risk

(1998, Tandem Library [English])
ISBN-10: 1417711809 ISBN-13: 9781417711802 - English

At Risk

(1 January 2001, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporat, USA [English])
ISBN-10: 0399138447 ISBN-13: 9780399138447 - English
hardback

At Risk

(1 November 1998, Penguin USA, Inc. [English])
ISBN-10: 1101140968 ISBN-13: 9781101140963 - English

At Risk

(Putnam Publishing Group [Russian])
ISBN-10: 5552268342 ISBN-13: 9785552268344 - USSR
Hardcover

Languages:
  • English (14)
  • Russian (1)
    Countries: GBR, USA
    Bindings: Ppb., Audio Cassette, Leather/Fine Binding, Hardcover, hardback, Trade Paperback, paperback
    Publication years: 1988-2009
    Pages: 219-306

    See also

  • My Vertical World (by Jerzy Kukuczka)


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