Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket Book Club Edition 1997. Library-sale inkstamp; noticeable wear to jacket. Text clean and unmarked; pages bright; binding tight. Good reading / research copy. 256 pages. Language: English. From the publisher: 'The tenth novel by the widely praised author of A Southern Exposure and Almost Perfect concerns the complicated relationship between patient and doctor. When a woman learns that her headaches are caused by a rare malignancy, her only guide through a frightening new world of oncologists, radiologists, specialists, and clinics, is the doctor whom she once considered only an annoying admirer.'