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Smoak Shelby
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Titolo: |
Bleeder : a memoir / / Shelby Smoak
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Pubblicazione: | East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2013 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (215 p.) |
Disciplina: | 616.1/5720092 |
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Soggetto topico: | Hemophiliacs - Virginia |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Bleeder ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-62895-060-9 |
1-60917-355-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910826179503321 |
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