01188cam a2200277 4500 250521014 TxAuBib 20130321120000.0 011025s1994||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 93047443 9780679432999 067943299X (OCoLC)29549243 DLC DLC DLC TxAuBib Berg, Elizabeth. Talk before sleep : a novel / Elizabeth Berg. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 1994. 210 p. ; 21 cm. The gripping story of a woman dying from cancer. The narrator is Ann Stanley, an unhappily married nurse. All the more reason for her to admire Ruth Thomas who leaves her husband, even though it means leaving her son, too. A bond develops between the two and when Ruth is struck with cancer Ann helps her die, the process described in minute detail. By the author of Durable Goods. 20050715. Cancer Patients United States Fiction. Friendship United States Fiction. Women United States Fiction. TXCLY