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Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
de Shreve, Susan Richards
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good -/Good +
- ISBN 10
- 061865853X
- ISBN 13
- 9780618658534
- Librería
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. A nice reading copy. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. Book and jacket show some shelfwear. . First Edition, 1st printing. Hard Cover. Very Good -/Good +.
Sinopsis
Just after her eleventh birthday, Susan Richards Shreve was sent to the sanitarium at Warm Springs, Georgia. The polio haven, famously founded by FDR, was “a perfect setting in time and place and strangeness for a hospital of crippled children.” During Shreve’s two year stay, the Salk vaccine would be discovered, ensuring that she would be among the last Americans to have suffered childhood polio. At Warm Springs, Shreve found herself in a community of similarly afflicted children, and for the first time she was one of the gang. Away from her fiercely protective mother, she became a feisty troublemaker and an outspoken ringleader. Shreve experienced first love with a thirteen-year-old boy in a wheelchair. She navigated rocky friendships, religious questions, and family tensions, and encountered healing of all kinds. Shreve’s memoir is both a fascinating historical record of that time and an intensely felt story of childhood.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
- Autor
- Shreve, Susan Richards
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good -
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good +
- Edición
- First Edition, 1st printing
- ISBN 10
- 061865853X
- ISBN 13
- 9780618658534
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston, MA
- Fecha de publicación
- 2007
- Palabras clave
- HEALTH AUTOBIOGRAPHY POLIO
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Disease;
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- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
