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| Title: | Breathing lessons the life and work of Mark O'Brien / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jessica Yu; Sandra Tsing Loh; Mark O'Brien; Pacific News Service.; Inscrutable Films (Firm); Fanlight Productions. |
| ISBN: | 157295180X; 9781572951808 |
| Notes: | Open-captioned for the hearing impaired. VHS. Includes public performance rights. |
| Credits: | Director of photography, Shana Hagan; edited by Jessica Yu; music, Sandra Tsing Loh. |
| Description: | 1 videocassette (35 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in. |
| Other Titles: | Life and work of Mark O'Brien |
| Responsibility: | an Inscrutable Films production in conjunction with Pacific News Service ; produced, directed, and written by Jessica Yu. |
| Genre/Form: |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Documentary films. Biography. |
| Year: | c1996. |
| Publisher: | Boston, MA : Fanlight Productions, |
| Details: | VHS. |
| Standard Numbers: | Publisher no: 180 Fanlight Productions |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: RC180; Dewey No.: 921 O13 |
| Corporate Author: | Pacific News Service.; Inscrutable Films (Firm); Fanlight Productions. |
| More information: | |
| OCLC No.: | 35185726 |
Abstract:
Poet-journalist Mark O'Brien was stricken with polio in childhood and has spent most of his life in an iron lung. He describes how he has fought against illness and bureacracy for his right to lead an independent life and offers his reflections on work, sex, death, and God.
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