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The gifts of the body / Rebecca Brown.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.R6973 G53 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Rebecca, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Fiction.
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients.
- Home health aides.
- Visiting housekeepers.
- Visiting housekeepers--Fiction.
- Home health aides--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- v, 165 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperCollins, [1994]
- Summary:
- The narrator is volunteer in a home for people with aids and the novel describes the wear and tear on her nervous system as patient after patient dies. The breaking point comes when a fellow worker contracts the disease, whereupon she quits. By the author of The Children's Crusade.
- Notes:
- Lambda Literary Awards - Lesbian Fiction, Winner, 1995
- Other Format:
- Online version: Brown, Rebecca, 1956- Gifts of the body.
- ISBN:
- 0060171596
- 9780060171599
- OCLC:
- 30026863
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