Codeine Diary: A Memoir

This memoir of hemophilia is intensely personal and impressionistic, shifting back and forth in time between the author's recovery from a bleed episode in 1989 and accounts of his childhood. Among the issues he deals with are his guilt for having survived both his brother, who died of kidney disease in 1980, and the nine out of ten hemophiliaces who've been stricken by HIV and AIDS. The author is an award-winning poet, and his prose here is lyrical and highly original, approaching issues of illness and family in fresh and deeply affecting ways. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Author: Tom Andrews
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 02/01/1998
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.47h x 5.74w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780316042444

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/1997 pg. 1745
Publishers Weekly 01/12/1998 pg. 53
Booklist 01/01/1998 pg. 748
Library Journal 01/01/1998 pg. 126
Publishers Weekly 01/05/1998