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In a novel the Village Voice calls "memorable" and "striking", Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when 11-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS.
A stunning national bestseller, here is the story of a family in the tradition of "Ordinary People" and "Terms of Endearment." The Farrells are a family as ordinary and special as any family. There are parents, a son, and an 11-year-old daughter with big dreams of gymnastic gold. But a shocking tragedy consumes them, and it becomes all too clear that when it comes to love, everyone is at risk.
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Timothy Shearer
reviewed At Risk on October 15, 2012 At Risk
This is one of my favourite books of all time. I don't say that lightly as my other favourite books of all time are Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice and Little Women.
When I found this book in a bookshop back in the early 1990s I had never heard of its author Alice Hoffman before. I read the book in one sitting and then I immediately read it again.
To date I have read it more than 100 times and recommended it to so many people.
I cried for most of the book the first time I read it. I still cry now each time I read it.
The characters are beautiful. They are not perfect - they are an ordinary family.
Amanda is an extraordinary girl and some of my favourite lines and scenes ever in a book, are written with her in them. The part when she has her braces taken off and suddenly realises that she would have grown up to be beautiful. That is a sublime piece of writing.
Her little brother is a wonder and I adore their relationship.
If you have never heard of Alice Hoffman I urge you to buy this book and then every other book she has ever written.
You have a real treat in store and sometimes I wish that I was finding this book At Risk and her other books for the first time.
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