Bleeder : a memoir / Shelby Smoak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smoak, Shelby.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hemophiliacs--Virginia--Biography.

Hemophiliacs.

Smoak, Shelby.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-62895-060-9

1-60917-355-4

OCLC:

823738511