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Product Description Best-selling author A. Manette Ansay delivers a powerful and heart-rending memoir that is a brilliant testament to the resiliency and determination of the human soul. Limbo, Ansay's first book of nonfiction, takes its title from the Catholic belief in a place between Heaven and Hell that is neither. Ansay's physical limbo forms the backdrop for a moving meditation on the ways in which the unraveling of one life can plant the seeds of another, exploring how the experience of chronic illness has challenged her most fundamental assumptions about faith. About the Author A. Manette Ansay is the author of eight books, including "Vinegar Hill", "Midnight Champagne" (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and "Blue Water". She has received the Pushcart Prize, two Great Lakes Book Awards, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches in the MFA writing program at the University of Miami. From AudioFile This memoir by they author of VINEGAR HILL is, among other things, a study of pain, not just the physical discomfort produced by Ansay's chronic, undiagnosable illness, but also the pain of being different, of losing an easy faith in religion, and of giving up the dream of becoming a concert pianist. Jean Smart provides an excellent narration, especially when the writing winds back to Ansay's past, exploring her passion for music and her ambivalence toward Catholicism. Ansay's fans will especially welcome this memoir's insights into the writer's life and work. J.C.G. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine