The distinguished guest
Parkinson's disease
Aging parents
Mothers and sons
Mothers and daughters, fiction
Married people, fiction
Domestic fiction
Married people
Fiction, family life, general
Mothers and daughters
Women authors
Patients
Fiction, general
Large type books
Fiction
The Distinguished Guest chronicles the visit of an ailing woman to her son and his family. Lily Maynard is proud, chilly, difficult, and famous for writing, at age seventy-two, a memoir about the dissolution of her marriage years earlier and the spiritual and political crises that precipitated that …
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