Powers Richard - Operation Wandering Soul A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: National Book Award Finalist From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment an exquisitely rendered novel set in the pediatrics ward of a public hospital that examines the power joy and anguish of storytelling. If you have children or will have children if you know children or can remember being a child dare to read Operation Wandering Soul it is bedtime reading for the future. US a Today In the pediatrics ward of a public hospital in the heart of Los Angeles a group of sick children is gathering. Surrogate parents to this band of stray kids resident Richard Kraft and therapist Linda Espera are charged with keeping the group alive on make - believe alone. Determined to give hope where there is none the adults spin a desperate anthology of stories that promise restoration and escape. But the inevitable is foreshadowed in the faces they ve grown to love and ultimately Richard and Linda must return to forgotten chapters in their own lives in order to make sense of the conclusion drawing near.
Title: Operation Wandering Soul A Novel
Author(s): Powers Richard
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780060976118
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 4/2/2002
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction