Chester, Laura, — Lupus Novice: toward self-healing.

Barrytown, NY, Station Hill Press, (1987). VG in VG DJ. A poet/novelist's moving account of her own struggle and personal breakthrough with SLE (stemic lupus erythematosus) . She begins with with conventional medicine and then a range of alternative approaches and comes to new depths in herself, uncovering of metaphor and meaning reflected in the process of the body attacking itself. We witness how a determined individual can reverse the expectations of medical opinion. DJ edge wear, one spot ft DJ flap at bottom.