Alex
New York: Viking Press, 1983. Book Club Edition. hardcover. 8vo 153pp. from front flap: "Alexandra Deford, the daughter of Frank and Carol Deford, was born in Connecticut in 1971 and died there in 1980, just over eight years old. She was a victim of cystic fibrosis, a painful and wasting disease. It is one of the genetic lottery's cruelest tricks, because parents cannot suspect they are both carriers--a precondition--until after a child is born and diagnosed. Alex is the story of Alex Deford's life and death, and about the ways in which she so deeply affected her parents and brother and friends and all teh adults around her." Book VG: mild toning/offset to endpapers else clean, tight, square, unmarked. / DJ VG: mild age toning/soil, NOT clipped. Item #3114
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