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Oxygen
by Andrew Miller
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Alice Valentine is dying in her English country home, where she is dependent in her last days on an oxygen tank. Her two sons, bringing their complicated lives along, converge at her deathbed. In a related plot line, a playwright named Laszlo Lazar, in Paris with his lover, seeks to redeem past guilts by performing a daring mission during the war in Bosnia. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
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9780151007219,
Hardcover,
Harcourt,
2002
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9780156027403,
Paperback,
Mariner Books,
2003
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Publisher Notes
As Alec Valentine returns home to England to care for his ailing mother, which heightens his feelings of inadequacy, his older brother Larry, whose acting career and marriage is failing, prepares to come home as well, and L¯szl= L¯zar, whose play Alec is translating, finds that, even though his life is filled with love, he cannot stop thinking about past mistakes.
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"Consistently interesting, but it doesn't add up to much."
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