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The condition

Gwen, who has Turner's syndrome, struggles to live a satisfying life despite of the efforts of her dysfunctional family to both help her and to meddle in her affairs.

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  • "Gwen, who has Turner's syndrome, struggles to live a satisfying life despite of the efforts of her dysfunctional family to both help her and to meddle in her affairs."@en
  • "Nach aussen sind die McKotchs eine geradezu perfekte Familie. Doch als die 13-jährige Gwen schwer erkrankt, zeigt sich plötzlich, wie einsam jeder von ihnen ist. Zu hoch sind die Erwartungen, die alle haben, zu gross die Zweifel an der Liebe zueinander. Allein Gwen gelingt es schliesslich als junge Frau, ihrem Schicksal zu trotzen. Als sie sich verliebt, hat sie das Gefühl, endlich aufzutauchen und befreit zu sein. Doch ihr unverhofftes Glück löst in ihrer Familie fatale Emotionen aus."
  • "In the summer of 1976, during their annual retreat on Cape Cod, the McKotch family came apart. Now, twenty years after daughter Gwen was diagnosed with Turner's syndrome'a rare genetic condition that keeps her trapped forever in the body of a child'eminent scientist Frank McKotch is divorced from his pedigreed wife, Paulette. Eldest son Billy, a successful cardiologist, lives a life built on secrets and compromise. His brother Scott awakened from a pot-addled adolescence to a soul-killing job and a regrettable marriage. And Gwen'bright and accomplished but hermetic and emotionally aloof'spurns all social interaction until, well into her thirties, she falls in love for the first time. With compassion and almost painful astuteness, The Condition explores the power of family mythologies'the self-delusions, denials, and inescapable truths that forever bind fathers and mothers and siblings."@en
  • "In 1976 Frank McKotch and his family realize that thirteen-year-old Gwen has Turner's syndrome - a genetic conditon that will prevent her from maturing, trapping her forever in the body of a child. Twenty years later the family members are still dealing with the individual feelings of the family's demise. And when Gwen, now in her thirties, falls in love for the first time, the family's world is tilted on its axis."
  • "Unaware of the long-standing grievances harbored by their divorced parents, three adult siblings embark on a tumultuous summer when the oldest, a successful Manhattan doctor, investigates his sister's chromosomal disorder against his mother's wishes."@en
  • "Unaware of the long-standing grievances harbored by their divorced parents, three adult siblings embark on a tumultuous summer when the oldest, a successful Manhattan doctor, investigates his sister's chromosomal disorder against his mother's wishes."
  • "The Condition tells the story of the McKotches, a proper New England family that comes apart during one fateful summer. The year is 1976, and the family has embarked on their annual vacation to Cape Cod. One day, Frank is struck by his thirteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, standing a full head shorter than her younger cousin. At that moment he knows something is terribly wrong with his only daughter. Twenty years after Gwen's diagnosis with Turner's Syndrome?a genetic condition that traps her forever in the body of a child?all five family members are still dealing with the fallout. Frank and Paulette are acrimoniously divorced. Billy is dutiful but distant. His brother, Scott, awakens from a pot-addled adolescence to a soul-killing job and a regrettable marriage. And Gwen is silent and emotionally aloof, until she falls in love for the first time. And suddenly, once again, the family's world is tilted on its axis. Compassionate yet unflinchingly honest, witty and almost painfully astute, The Condition explores the power of family mythologies."
  • "A year in the life of the members of the divided McKotch family, revealing their secrets and their conflicts."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Medical fiction"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "O legado"
  • "Auftauchen : Roman"
  • "The condition"@en
  • "The condition"
  • "The Condition"@en
  • "The Condition"
  • "The condition a novel"
  • "The condition a novel"@en
  • "Auftauchen Roman"
  • "La condition"
  • "Diagnoza"
  • "Diagnoza"@pl
  • "La Condition"
  • "The condition : a novel"
  • "The condition : a novel"@en
  • "La condition : roman"
  • "Familieband"

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