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Codeine Diary by Tom Andrews (1998)

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Item number:270123434420
Item location:Ohio, United States
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Author: Tom AndrewsPublisher: Little Brown & Co
1723687: 0316042447Subject: Auto/Biography
 --Format: Hardback
 --Publication Year: 1998
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A memoir by a poet and professor who is also a hemophiliac. This is a chronicle of his always chancy life, and his refusal to give in to his condition.

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Height:8.8 in.
Width:6.0 in.
Thickness:1.0 in.
Weight:13.6 oz.

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In Codeine Diary, award-winning poet Tom Andrews gives a riveting and often hilarious account of living fully under the shadow of hemophilia. Codeine Diary is a lyrical and haunting memoir of one man's refusal to succumb to the constraints of his disease. Andrews learned early that ordinary life is a perpetual, fragile miracle, which drove him to race motorcycles and play in a punk band as a teenager - pursuits most hemophiliacs would regard as foolhardy at best. But while Andrews was "a poster child for bad insurance risks", he was considered the healthy one in his family: his brother suffered from a devastating and ultimately fatal kidney disorder. In fact, the two diseases were eerily symmetrical: there were days when Andrews would suffer a bleed while his brother's blood would not stop coagulating. Having acquired hemophilia through a "spontaneous mutation" and not hereditarily, having avoided HIV, which nine out of ten severe hemophiliacs contracted in the early 1980s, Andrews is living proof of the strange role chance plays in our lives.

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"...Andrews manages a nice balance of clinical detail and painful memory with wry humor."
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"CODEINE DIARY talks about his affliction, his addiction, and his rather unusual family life, including his relationship with his brother, whose terminal kidney disease makes Andrews the healthy kid in the family. Next to LSD flashbacks, a little codeine haze seems positively tame."
Carson 


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