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Autore: |
Presley Gary
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Titolo: |
Seven wheelchairs [[electronic resource] ] : a life beyond polio / / Gary Presley
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Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.196/8350092 |
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Soggetto topico: | Poliomyelitis - Patients - United States |
People with disabilities - United States | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | Acknowledgments; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Chapter 26; Chapter 27; Chapter 28; Chapter 29; Chapter 30 |
Sommario/riassunto: | In 1959, seventeen-year-old Gary Presley was standing in line, wearing his favorite cowboy boots and waiting for his final inoculation of Salk vaccine. Seven days later, a bad headache caused him to skip basketball practice, tell his dad that he was too ill to feed the calves, and walk from barn to bed with shaky, dizzying steps. He never walked again. By the next day, burning with the fever of polio, he was fastened into the claustrophobic cocoon of the iron lung that would be his home for the next three months. Set among the hardscrabble world of the Missouri Ozarks, sizzling with sarcasm an |
Titolo autorizzato: | Seven wheelchairs ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-58729-752-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910782758503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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