Slow Man Scribners Ken must decipher clues hidden

Ken must decipher clues hidden in Oliver’s final book

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Slow Man Scribners Ken must decipher clues hiddenPaul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are