A Reckoning
When Laura Spelman learns that she will not get well, she looks on this last illness as a journey during which she must reckon up her life, give up the nonessential, and concentrate on what she calls "the real connections". The heart of the story is Laura's realization that for her the real connections have been with womenher brilliant and devastating mother, a difficult daughter, and especially a woman she knew when she was young.
GenresFictionLiterary
256 pages, 5 editions
English edition · First published 1978 by W. W. Norton & Company · ISBN 9780393316216
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Editions
5 editions
English
- A Reckoning · W. W. Norton & Company · 1997 · ISBN 9780393316216 This page
- Reckoning · Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 2014 · ISBN 9781306929844
- A Reckoning · Curley & Associates · 1985 · ISBN 9780893409289
- A Reckoning · Women's Press · 1984 · ISBN 9780704339392
- A Reckoning: A Novel · Norton · 1978 · ISBN 9780393088281
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