- Diaries, Patients, Health, Cystic fibrosis
A twenty-one-year-old woman with cystic fibrosis shares her decision to accept a lung transplant and muses on the challenges of her disease, the surgery, her recovery period, and the ongoing confrontation with her own mortality.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Laura Rothenberg
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 237
- Publisher
- Hyperion
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781401300593
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