Download or read book The Gifts of the Body written by Rebecca Brown and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-08-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotionally wrenching work of fiction about a health-care worker who tenders compassion and love to victims of AIDS, by an author who "strips her language of convention to lay bare the ferocious rituals of love and need."--New York Times Book Review