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- catalog abstract "Body, Remember is a deeply affecting memoir that revolves around a mystery: at age 35, poet Kenny Fries wanted to discover what could be learned about the history of his body, and the map of physical and psychic scars with which he had lived since infancy. He began only with a description his father had given him. At his birth "each leg was no bigger than his finger; each leg was twisted like a pretzel; each leg had no arch to separate leg from foot; each leg was dimpled above what would have been my ankle." Fries turned to long-buried medical records, reconstructing a record of his disability just as his body had been reconstructed over countless surgeries. He unearthed family secrets and looked again at the echoing memories of past relationships. In Body, Remember we meet and come to know intimately Frie's observant Jewish family and neighbors in Brooklyn; his doctor, who broke with colleagues and insisted that he needn't undergo amputation of both his legs; the brother who resented his disabled sibling; the men who awakened Frie's sexuality and initiated him into a lifelong questioning of the meaning of beauty; and the community of disabled people who prompted some difficult questions about our world's demands on human life and physical being. Body, Remember ultimately tells a story about connection. This memoir is a redemptive and passionate testimony to one man's search for the sources of identity and difference.".
- catalog contributor b10028604.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "At his birth "each leg was no bigger than his finger; each leg was twisted like a pretzel; each leg had no arch to separate leg from foot; each leg was dimpled above what would have been my ankle."".
- catalog description "Body, Remember is a deeply affecting memoir that revolves around a mystery: at age 35, poet Kenny Fries wanted to discover what could be learned about the history of his body, and the map of physical and psychic scars with which he had lived since infancy. He began only with a description his father had given him.".
- catalog description "Body, Remember ultimately tells a story about connection. This memoir is a redemptive and passionate testimony to one man's search for the sources of identity and difference.".
- catalog description "Fries turned to long-buried medical records, reconstructing a record of his disability just as his body had been reconstructed over countless surgeries. He unearthed family secrets and looked again at the echoing memories of past relationships.".
- catalog description "In Body, Remember we meet and come to know intimately Frie's observant Jewish family and neighbors in Brooklyn; his doctor, who broke with colleagues and insisted that he needn't undergo amputation of both his legs; the brother who resented his disabled sibling; the men who awakened Frie's sexuality and initiated him into a lifelong questioning of the meaning of beauty; and the community of disabled people who prompted some difficult questions about our world's demands on human life and physical being.".
- catalog extent "224 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0525941622 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Dutton,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "362.4/3/092 B 20".
- catalog subject "Authors with disabilities United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Fries, Kenny, 1960- Biography.".
- catalog subject "Fries, Kenny, 1960-".
- catalog subject "Gay men United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Gays with disabilities United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Leg Abnormalities Patients United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "PS3556.R568 Z464 1997".
- catalog subject "People with disabilities United States Biography.".
- catalog title "Body, remember : a memoir / Kenny Fries.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".