Bleeder [[electronic resource] ] : a memoir / / Shelby Smoak

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463324103321
• Autore: Smoak Shelby
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2013
• ISBN: 1-62895-060-9; 1-60917-355-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.1/5720092; B
• Soggetti: Hemophiliacs - Virginia; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Blood; A Man in Hiding; The Regular; Ana; Sandwich Interlude; College; Throwing Hope Away; The Split; Summer 21; The Pine Cone Did It; Lungs; Ears; Yachts; Sunset upon the Heart; The Handbook to Dating with HIV; My Lolita; Chase Manhattan Owns Me; Ankles; The Depressing Effect of Numbers; Loose Lips; The Unicorn; Winter Is the Cruelest Season; Cocktails; Recovery; The Open Door; Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: I am Caucasian, five foot eleven, have sandy brown hair, blue eyes, and am a tender slip of bone. And I am at the hospital. A coming-of-age memoir for modern times, Bleeder is the incredibly compelling tale of author Shelby Smoak. A hemophiliac, Smoak discovered he had been infected with HIV during a blood transfusion at the start of his college career. This devastating and destabilizing news led Smoak to see his world from an entirely new perspective, one in which life-threatening illness was perpetually just around the corner. Set in the 1990's along the North Carolina coast, Bleeder traces