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Title: Who is Julia?
Author: Barbara S. Harris
Published: New York: Popular Library, 1972
Page Count: 317
Total Page Count: 34,670
Text Number: 99
Read For: my own enjoyment
Short review: Julia North darts in front a moving streetcar to rescue Mary Frances Beaudine's son. Julia is fatally injured by the streetcar, and Mary Frances dies of a brain hemorrhage on the spot. When the two women are bought in to the local university hospital, the doctors decide to perform a new, experimental surgery in the attempt to save Julia's life: they remove her brain from her dying body and insert it into the whole body of the deceased Mary Frances. The operation sparks nation-wide controversy. Meanwhile, Julie recovers slowly from the surgery, and she and her family learn to cope with what it means to be yourself inside a stranger's body. Capably, even thoughtfully plotted but drying written with almost no emotional appeal, this book is based on an interesting concept but is a dull, predictable read. I don't recommend it.
( Long review. )
Review posted here at Amazon.com.
Author: Barbara S. Harris
Published: New York: Popular Library, 1972
Page Count: 317
Total Page Count: 34,670
Text Number: 99
Read For: my own enjoyment
Short review: Julia North darts in front a moving streetcar to rescue Mary Frances Beaudine's son. Julia is fatally injured by the streetcar, and Mary Frances dies of a brain hemorrhage on the spot. When the two women are bought in to the local university hospital, the doctors decide to perform a new, experimental surgery in the attempt to save Julia's life: they remove her brain from her dying body and insert it into the whole body of the deceased Mary Frances. The operation sparks nation-wide controversy. Meanwhile, Julie recovers slowly from the surgery, and she and her family learn to cope with what it means to be yourself inside a stranger's body. Capably, even thoughtfully plotted but drying written with almost no emotional appeal, this book is based on an interesting concept but is a dull, predictable read. I don't recommend it.
( Long review. )
Review posted here at Amazon.com.
