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| | In the Absence of Angels |  | Author: E. Glaser
Publisher: Berkley
Category: Book
List Price: $5.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1093095
Media: Paperback
Pages: 10
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0425130231
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.196979200922
EAN: 9780425130230
ASIN: 0425130231
Publication Date: November 1, 1991
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Product Description
In 1981, Elizabeth Glaser, wife of TV's Starsky and Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser, contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion and unknowingly passed the virus on to her two children. In 1988, Elizabeth's daughter Ariel died of AIDS. Elizabeth has since devoted herself to lobbying Congress for pediatric AIDS research and funding. Photographs. HC: Putnam.
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an excellent read, couldn't put the book down! May 24, 1998
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I found this book drawing me to it, and hard to put down! an excellent story, sad but full of hope and courage! a shockingly eye opening book!-in that NO-ONE was doing anything for kids-like the glaser kids, or any others who have/had this awful disease!! a very informative book about the disease and how it affects people, especially kids. I highly RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!
A truthful look at how Pediatric AIDS can affect a family. September 3, 1997
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Elizabeth Glaser wasn't famous until she met and later married Paul Micheal Glaser of tv's Starsky and Hutch. She wsan't used to fame and notoriety, but she became accustomed to it. At the opening of the book, Elizabeth begins by telling us of complications she had when her and Paul's daughter Ariel was born. She needed many blood tranfusions from many different donors. It was in one of those transfusions that the AIDS virus was hiding. Elizabeth was infecting and she didn't even know it. She passed the deadly virus onto her daughter through breast feeding and later to her son, Jake, while he was still in her womb. In the Absence of Angels is more than just Elziabeth's story. It's the story of her children, her husband, and their struggle to find courage in the face of a losing battle. It's the story of how Elizabeth, with the help of friends and support of her husband, formed the first charity for funding research for Pediatric AIDS which until Elizabeth brought the spotlight to it because of the death of her daughter Ariel, was untouched by doctors and charities alike. It's the story of a family having to cope with the death of a very young, beautiful and precious daughter in 1988 and the inevitable death of a loving, caring wife in 1992, but it isn't a sad book. To me, it's a book of hope and strength. I highly recommend it to any and every one
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