This is the story of an American family whose lives are shattered when their 11-year-old daughter, a gymnast with her sights set on the Olympics, discovers she has contracted AIDS from a contaminated blood transfusion. Alice Hoffman is the author of "Season", "Angel Landing" and "White Horses".
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In a novel the Village Voice calls "memorable" and "striking," Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS...
"Brilliant...explosive...heart-rending." --Chicago Tribune
"Graceful...emotionally potent...A cathartic tale that begs us, with heartbreaking eloquence, to stop looking the other way."--Glamour
"Within pages, the reader falls in love with this very real little girl... Moving, dramatic and painfully human."--Miami Herald
"Compelling power...tenderness and perceptiveness." --New York Times
"I have rarely encountered a work that has moved me as strongly... extraordinary." --Mademoiselle
"Deeply impressive...powerful." --Newsweek
"Deeply moving...Sensitivity and empathy...radiate from this beautiful novel." --Chicago Sun-Times
"Compassionate...This is a serious, honest novel." --Village Voice
"Tender, strikingly simple and deeply memorable." --Kirkus Reviews
"An affecting novel of exquisite delicacy, with humor, warmth, and sensitivity. Miss Hoffman heals wounds with the gentle touch of an angel." --Joseph Heller
Praise for At Risk
“Graceful...emotionally potent...A cathartic tale that begs us, with heartbreaking eloquence, to stop looking the other way.”—Glamour
“Within pages, the reader falls in love with this very real little girl... Moving, dramatic and painfully human.”—Miami Herald
“I have rarely encountered a work that has moved me as strongly... extraordinary.”—Mademoiselle
“Deeply impressive...powerful.”—Newsweek
“Deeply moving...Sensitivity and empathy...radiate from this beautiful novel.”—Chicago Sun-Times
“Compassionate...This is a serious, honest novel.”—Village Voice
“Tender, strikingly simple and deeply memorable.”—Kirkus Reviews
“An affecting novel of exquisite delicacy, with humor, warmth, and sensitivity. Miss Hoffman heals wounds with the gentle touch of an angel.”—Joseph Heller
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