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River in Egypt
D. MEANS
Category: Fiction: General
ISBN: 0-571-35249-9 EAN: 978-0-571-35249-4 Format: PB Pages: 34 Publisher: Faber Year: 2021 Quantity in Stock: 32
Cover price: £3.5 Sale Price:£0.99
In his masterful story 'A River in Egypt', David Means paints a portrait of a moment. Cavanaugh and his young son are suspended; trapped in what a nurse calls 'the sweat chamber', where the boy will be tested for cystic fibrosis. Cavanaugh has brought distractions - spasmodic action figures, malformed toy trucks - but they do little to alter the frustration of the sick child screaming, or to alleviate the anxiety of the time spent waiting for 'some exactitude in the form of a diagnosis'.
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