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- catalog abstract ""At its heart, this book is a collection of personal accounts that speak to a variety of social concerns, from youth crime and domestic violence to public education and health care. Told by children as well as adults, these stories offer illuminating if sometimes disturbing testimony about the circumstances of life in the contemporary United States. One story, for example, depicts the precarious world of a thirteen-year-old drug dealer. Another presents the searing narrative of a woman convicted of killing her abusive husband. Still another tells the painful saga of an atomic war veteran fighting the ravages of a disease induced and then denied by his own government."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12065608.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""At its heart, this book is a collection of personal accounts that speak to a variety of social concerns, from youth crime and domestic violence to public education and health care. Told by children as well as adults, these stories offer illuminating if sometimes disturbing testimony about the circumstances of life in the contemporary United States. One story, for example, depicts the precarious world of a thirteen-year-old drug dealer. Another presents the searing narrative of a woman convicted of killing her abusive husband. Still another tells the painful saga of an atomic war veteran fighting the ravages of a disease induced and then denied by his own government."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Foreword / Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot -- Introduction: The Ecology of Peril -- I. Health Peril. Children at Risk: The Case for Youthful Offenders. The Waiting Time of Wilson Diver. Mother on a Train. A Child Watches Television. Just a Pharmacist. Feeling Ill with the City Disease -- II. Family Peril. Mind Shadows: A Suicide in the Family. Retirement Account. Women Who Kill. A Son Dies of AIDS. Kidnapper -- III. School Peril. School Closing. My Brother's Keeper. Teachers and Students. A Rainy Night of Poetry. A Family Prepares for College -- IV. Societal Peril. One Job and They Would've Had Smooth Sailing. Dying from the Lines. Dr. Paulie's Snowstorm. Men with No Answers. Hocking a Life. Witness to Joy -- Afterword: Life Studies and the Value of Stories.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "310 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "155849278X (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "361.1/0973 21".
- catalog subject "HN59.2 .C676 2001".
- catalog subject "Social problems United States.".
- catalog subject "Social psychology United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot -- Introduction: The Ecology of Peril -- I. Health Peril. Children at Risk: The Case for Youthful Offenders. The Waiting Time of Wilson Diver. Mother on a Train. A Child Watches Television. Just a Pharmacist. Feeling Ill with the City Disease -- II. Family Peril. Mind Shadows: A Suicide in the Family. Retirement Account. Women Who Kill. A Son Dies of AIDS. Kidnapper -- III. School Peril. School Closing. My Brother's Keeper. Teachers and Students. A Rainy Night of Poetry. A Family Prepares for College -- IV. Societal Peril. One Job and They Would've Had Smooth Sailing. Dying from the Lines. Dr. Paulie's Snowstorm. Men with No Answers. Hocking a Life. Witness to Joy -- Afterword: Life Studies and the Value of Stories.".
- catalog title "At peril : stories of injustice / Thomas J. Cottle.".
- catalog type "text".