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1 online resource (x, 226 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
In 1959, seventeen-year-old Gary Presley was standing in line, wearing his favorite cowboy boots and waiting for his final inoculation of Salk vaccine. Seven days later, a bad headache caused him to skip basketball practice, tell his dad that he was too ill to feed the calves, and walk from barn to bed with shaky, dizzying steps. He never walked again. By the next day, burning with the fever of polio, he was fastened into the claustrophobic cocoon of the iron lung that would be his home for the next three months. Set among the hardscrabble world of the Missouri Ozarks, sizzling with sarcasm an. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Presley, Gary -- Health.
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Presley, Gary. |
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Health. |
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Presley, Gary -- Health. |
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Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Poliomyelitis -- Patients. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
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People with disabilities. |
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Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Print version: Presley, Gary. Seven wheelchairs. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2008 9781587296932 1587296934 (DLC) 2008010014 (OCoLC)213479931 |
| ISBN |
9781587297526 (electronic book) |
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1587297523 (electronic book) |
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9781587296932 (clothbound ; alkaline paper) |
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1587296934 (clothbound ; alkaline paper) |
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