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Such a Pretty Girl

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Such a Pretty Girl

By Lynne Elizabeth, Suzanne Young

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About the book

A memoir by a disability rights activist Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina La Spina's story-from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness; to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals, where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel that her body no longer belongs to her; to her rebellion and her activism in the disability ...Show more

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ISBN

9781613320853

Publisher

New Village Press

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

Such a Pretty Girl

Format

Paperback

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