"The author's multiple voices—scholar, sociologist, victim—provide an academic, yet personal, professional, yet poignant, story....Readers face...the 'contradictory meanings' that an especially articulate woman brings to the final chapter of her life."
—Women and Health
"Paget's book is stunning. It's a tribute to the invulnerable human spirit. The woman burned like a flame; obviously she died well, because she lived well; she was loved because she was loving. The book is tremendously sad, but it isn't depressing; somehow, one is left with a sense of human possibility."
—Joan Cassell, author ofExpected Miracles: Surgeons at Work
Marianne A. Paget(1940-1989) was a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University.
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