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Rough sleepers / Tracy Kidder.

Kidder, Tracy, (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781984801432
ISBN: 1984801430
Physical Description: xii, 298 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Random House, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical resources (pages 287-298).

Formatted Contents Note:

I. The van -- II. The art of healing -- Conscripted -- Foot soaking -- Disaster medicine -- III. The pantheon -- Numbers -- A new face -- The street team meeting -- Angels without wings -- The memorial service -- IV. Against medical advice -- No loud voices -- Upside-down medicine -- Death by housing -- Eulogies for Barbara -- Living life backwards -- V. Searching for meaning -- A history of Tony -- Inventing a purpose -- The social director -- Autumn street rounds -- Success -- VI. A system of friends -- Winter comes -- Tony's world -- The beauty of human connection -- Sisyphus -- Boundaries and limits -- The gala -- The prism -- VII. The night watchman -- The worry list -- Button-down-shirt moments -- The hug -- The law of pariahs -- In Boston Municipal Court -- Childhood -- A free man -- Confession -- The night watchman -- VIII. The portrait gallery -- A pandemic season -- The portrait gallery.