This wild darkness : the story of my death / Harold Brodkey.

One day in the spring of 1993, author Harold Brodkey checked into a Manhattan emergency room unable to move and scarcely able to breathe. When he was later diagnosed with the AIDS virus, Brodkey greeted the devastating--and completely unexpected--news with an odd lightheartedness, a perverse fascina...

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Main Author: Brodkey, Harold (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : H. Holt, 1996.
Edition:First edition.
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