Folding paper cranes : an atomic memoir / by Leonard Bird.

Author
Bird, Leonard [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2005.
Description
xvi, 152 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

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    "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."--BOOK JACKET.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-152).
    ISBN
    0874808243 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2005000304
    OCLC
    57452778
    RCP
    C - S
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