Breath
Subtitle: a lifetime in the rhythm of an iron lung : a memoir
By: Martha Mason ; foreword by Anne Rivers Siddons ; introduction by Charles Cornwell
Edition: 1st Bloomsbury USA ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781608191192
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Patients; Journalists; American Women authors; Women journalists; Poliomyelitis; American Authors; Biography
Notes: Includes reading group guide.
Table of contents: title: Map of Lattimore --; title: Foreword --; title: Acknowledgments --; title: Introduction -- -- Part 1 -- Chapter 1.; title: Living on the Edge When You Don't Know Tea from Turnips -- -- Chapter 2.; title: My Fair Helper -- -- Chapter 3.; title: A Thin White Curtain -- -- Chapter 4.; title: My Best Friend -- -- Chapter 5.; title: The Miracle of the Unwrapping -- -- Chapter 6.; title: Rescued by Wonderful Wanda, Prozac, and a Dragon -- -- Part 2 -- Chapter 7.; title: Christmas Eve, 1945 -- -- Chapter 8.; title: Lattimore in the Late Forties -- -- Chapter 9.; title: A Farm of My Own -- -- Chapter 10.; title: Boys -- -- Chapter 11.; title: Pulling Another Br'er Rabbit -- -- Chapter 12.; title: A Spider's Web -- -- Chapter 13.; title: The Long Yellow Barrel -- -- Chapter 14.; title: Mrs. Lee's Pythias -- -- Chapter 15.; title: My Hometown Collectibles -- -- Chapter 16.; title: From the Order of the Border to the Society of Phi Beta Kappa -- -- Chapter 17.; title: You Can Go Home Again -- -- Part 3 -- Chapter 18.; title: Mother's Merry Twilight -- -- Chapter 19.; title: April 15, 1998 -- -- Chapter 20.; title: The Old Girls Try Ostrich Burgers