The wilderness
By: Samantha Harvey
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: W F Howes
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9781407437378
Subjects: Family relationships; Patients; Alzheimer's disease; Fiction
Description: "It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer's. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake struggles to hold on to his personal story but it becomes increasingly elusive and unreliable. What happened to his daughter? And why exactly is his son in prison? What went so wrong in his life? Is there anything he'll be able to salvage from the wreckage? Beauty, perhaps, the memory of love. Or nothing at all?--Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape.