02483nam 2200541 a 450 991046332410332120200520144314.01-62895-060-91-60917-355-4(CKB)2670000000279194(EBL)1810016(SSID)ssj0000782757(PQKBManifestationID)11455992(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000782757(PQKBWorkID)10747641(PQKB)10235522(MiAaPQ)EBC3338294(OCoLC)823738511(MdBmJHUP)muse20063(Au-PeEL)EBL3338294(CaPaEBR)ebr10629199(EXLCZ)99267000000027919420120829d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBleeder[electronic resource] a memoir /Shelby SmoakEast Lansing Michigan State University Pressc20131 online resource (215 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61186-069-5 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; AcknowledgmentsI 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 tracesHemophiliacsVirginiaBiographyElectronic books.Hemophiliacs616.1/5720092BSmoak Shelby928780MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463324103321Bleeder2087348UNINA