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Body toxic : an environmental memoir / by Susanne Antonetta.
Van Pelt Library RA1197.52.A55 A3 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Antonetta, Susanne, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antonetta, Susanne, 1956---Health.
- Antonetta, Susanne.
- Antonetta, Susanne, 1956-.
- Environmentally induced diseases--Patients--New Jersey--Pine Barrens--Biography.
- Environmentally induced diseases.
- Hazardous waste sites--Health aspects--New Jersey--Pine Barrens.
- Hazardous waste sites.
- Environmentally induced diseases--Patients.
- Hazardous waste sites--Health aspects.
- Health.
- New Jersey--Pine Barrens.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 242 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint, 2001.
- Summary:
- Describes the author's Italian family who immigrated to New Jersey next to another immigrant family, only to find their bodies and dreams destroyed due to the radiation and toxic waste in their new environment.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 First Words 3
- Chapter 2 Little Squalicum 33
- Chapter 3 Nevertheless, It Moves 52
- Chapter 4 Running Feet 74
- Chapter 5 Elizabeth 91
- Chapter 6 Springs 107
- Chapter 7 Trailing Clouds 126
- Chapter 8 Jersey Devil 153
- Chapter 9 Double Helix 173
- Chapter 10 Midway House 189
- Chapter 11 Radium Girls 194
- Chapter 12 Self-Portrait in a Nuclear Mirror 208
- Epilogue: Specific Endpoints of Concern 237.
- Notes:
- American Book Awards, Winner, 2002
- Other Format:
- Online version: Antonetta, Susanne, 1956- Body toxic.
- ISBN:
- 1582431167
- 9781582431161
- OCLC:
- 45634594
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