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The story of one man's five-year struggle against leukemia. This a memoir of those years - from his diagnosis at the age of twenty-four, through all of his hospital stays and chemotherapy, to the time of his cure. He records ... "the full emotional range of his experience ... a bracing, achingly poignant account of his determination to reclaim his life."
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3 editions- Other · English · 1997Henry Holt · 9780805050677
- Other · English · 1996Souvenir · 279 pages · 9780285633506
- Other · English · 1996Little, Brown and Company · 279 pages · 9780316344098
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