| Description |
xvi, 152 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-152). |
| Summary |
"A bronze monument - the Tower of a Thousand Cranes - stands in Hiroshima's International Peace Park, mute testimony to Sadako Sasaki, a young victim of the atomic bomb whose radiation-induced leukemia led to her death after she had folded only six hundred cranes." "In Leonard Bird's haunting memoir, Sadako's monument becomes a touchstone for his own experiences with cancer and the bomb. Exposed to radiation during aboveground detonations at the Nevada Test Site in the 1950s, Bird must find a way to make peace not only with his past but with a future shadowed by nuclear proliferation. In committing his story to paper, Bird gains, with each reader, another paper crane."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Part One: The national sacrifice -- The mourning dove -- Life in the dead zone -- Collateral damage -- Part Two: The courage to hope -- The survivor -- A flight of cranes -- As this plague rages. |
| Subject |
Bird, Leonard.
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United States. Marine Corps -- Biography.
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Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Nevada.
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Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Atomic bomb victims -- United States -- Biography.
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Atomic bomb -- Health aspects.
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| ISBN |
0874808243 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780874808247 paperback alkaline paper |
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