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Author Smoak, Shelby

Title Bleeder : a Memoir / Shelby Smoak
Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (199 pages)
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Blood -- A man in hiding -- the regular -- Ana -- Sandwich interlude -- 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
Summary The author, a hemophiliac, discovered he had been infected with HIV during a blood transfusion at the start of his college career. This devastating and destabilizing news led the author to see his world from an entirely new perspective, one in which life-threatening illness was perpetually just around the corner. Set in the 1990s along the North Carolina coast, the book traces his quest for love in a world that feels increasingly dangerous, and despite a future that feels increasingly uncertain. From the bedroom to the operating room, and from one hospital to the next, the author seeks out hope and better health
Subject Smoak, Shelby
SUBJECT Smoak, Shelby fast
Subject Hemophiliacs -- Virginia -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
Hemophiliacs
Virginia
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012029287
ISBN 9781609173555
1609173554
9781628950601
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