Buffalo lockjaw
By: Greg Ames
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781401309800
Subjects: Parent and adult child; Alzheimer's disease; Fiction
Description: James Fitzroy travels home to Buffalo for the Thanksgiving holiday?and to assist his mother in committing suicide. Ellen, only 56 and a nurse, author, and patients-rights activist, has Alzheimer?s. Several years before, as her dementia deepened, she told James she planned to commit suicide; he talked her out of it but now understands that she knew best. But James is the slacker in the family. Can he do it?--From Booklist.
Notes: "A Hyperion trade paperback original"--P. [4] of cover.