The rowing lesson
By: Anne Landsman
Publisher: Granta; GRANTA BOOKS
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781862079892
Subjects: Coma; Fiction; Patients; Family relationships; Physicians; Roman
Description: 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.