Henry Moss is a molecular geneticist, specializing in Hickman congenital disorder that causes children to age drastically and die of "old age" as teenagers.

His fourteen-year-old patient William Durbin will die soon if he doesn't try the miracle cure against all the ethics. Henry Moss looks at the world with a mournful love. It is the same kind of love that one feels toward life and the human condition, love that is carried and suffered like some dreadful disease. I was smitten by Byers' beautiful, wise and sad prose. The reader's heart will ache for his melancholy characters, so deeply in love with the world. --Aggie Z.

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Long for This World (Paperback)

By Michael Byers

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780618446483
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Published: Mariner Books, 5/2004

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