A Whole New Life: An Illness And a Healing - Softcover

Price, Reynolds

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452274737 ISBN 13: 9780452274730

Verlag: Penguin, 1995

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Recounting without self-pity his struggle with cancer, the acclaimed author tells a personal story of multiple surgeries, radiation therapy, biofeedback and hypnosis, becoming a paraplegic, and his miraculous return to a new, active life as a writer. Reprint.

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Reynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters. In A Whole New Life he presents his most intimate story yet - a memoir as compelling as any work of the imagination. In 1984, a large cancer was discovered in Price's spinal cord. Here, he recounts his battle to withstand and recover from this devastating affliction. He charts the first puzzling symptoms, three surgeries, the radiation that paralyzes his lower body, the occasionally comic trials of rehab, the steady rise of pain and reliance on drugs, and his discovery of biofeedback and hypnosis. Beyond the particulars, Price illuminates larger concerns, such as the gratitude he feels toward family and friends and (some) doctors, the abundant return of his powers as a writer, and the "now appalling, now astonishing grace of God." More than the portrait of one person in crisis, A Whole New Life offers honest insight, realistic encouragement, and authentic inspiration - and stands as one of Price's crowning achievements.

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• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0452274737
• ISBN 13: 9780452274730
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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