The Death of a Beekeeper
In this novel, a schoolteacher turned apiarist learns at the begining of the winter thaw that he has cancer and will not live through the spring. Told through his journals, this is his gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain.
In this novel, a schoolteacher turned apiarist learns at the begining of the winter thaw that he has cancer and will not live through the spring. Told through his journals, this is his gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780811208109 (0811208109)
Publish date: November 1st 1981
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Pages no: 163
Edition language: English
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