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A Nearly Normal Life
Charles L. Mee
其他書名
A Memoir
出版Hachette+ORM, 2013-05-21
主題Biography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsBiography & Autobiography / Medical (incl. Patients)Social Science / People with DisabilitiesSocial Science / Disease & Health IssuesBiography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
ISBN03164005809780316400589
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JdDkIzORWyYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In the summer of 1953 the author was a carefree, athletic boy of fourteen. But after he collapsed during a school dance one night, he was suddenly bedridden, drifting in & out of consciousness, as his body disintegrated into a shadow of its former self. He had been stricken with spinal polio. When he emerged from the grip of the disease, he was confronted with a life change so enormous that it challenged all he had believed in & forced him, despite his young age, to redefine himself. His once stereotypically normal life, filled with baseball & swimming pools & dreams of girls, had been irreversibly altered. He was almost the same person he had been; he was nearly normal. His moving personal narrative is a textured portrait of life in the fifties - a time when America & her fighting spirit collided with this disease. Both funny & profound, he is a gifted, unique writer, who unravels the mysteries of youth in a Cold War climate, who gives voice to the mind of a child with a potentially fatal disease, & whose recognition of himself as a disabled outsider heightens his brilliant talents as a storyteller.