Spence + Lila
By: Bobbie Ann Mason ; illustrations by La Nelle Mason.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Harper short novel series
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Married people -- Fiction.; Older people -- Fiction.; Older people -- Medical care -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Spence and Lila.
Description: This unusual love story is about Spence and Lila Culpepper who have been married for more than forty years. It tells of the responses of their respective hearts to their first major encounter with old age and mortality. Lila has been hospitalized and goes through one medical procedure after another while her dazed husband and adult children stand helplessly by.