Bailey's beads
Subtitle: a novel
By: Terry Wolverton
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780571198917
Subjects: Coma; Mothers and daughters; Patients; Lesbians; Fiction
Description: A lesbian lies dying with her mother and her lover in attendance, but separately. The hostility of the two women is such they cannot be in the same room at once. Eventually, the pain of having to face their sorrow alone will force them together.