In 1984 Reynolds Price was stricken with severe cancer of the spine. In A Whole New Life he recounts for us what became the long struggle to withstand and recover from this disease. The eloquent, deeply moving account of his battle offers insight and courage to others who may suffer or who may know someone who suffers from a debilitating illness.
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In 1984 Reynolds Price was stricken with severe cancer of the spine. In A Whole New Life he recounts for us what became the long struggle to withstand and recover from this disease. The eloquent, deeply moving account of his battle offers insight and courage to others who may suffer or who may know someone who suffers from a debilitating illness.
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Fine. The dust jacket is clean and undamaged. Hardcover Book, Looks new, no markings, fading, or damage of any sort. No name or writing inside cover, Good enough to be a gift! Email with questions. Items are uploaded with their own individual photo, but when Multiple Items are for sale only one representative photo may be shown. Actual Photos are availible upon request. Fast Shipping Monday Through Saturday! -Safe and Secure!
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 213 p. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Fine jacket. 213 pages. A memoir of Price's struggle with cancer. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Reynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters--the author of novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, and a memoir. In "A Whole New Life", however, he steps from behind that roster of achievements to pre sentus with a more personal story, a narra tiveas intimate and compelling as any work of the imagination. In 1984 a large cancer was discovered in his spinal cord ("The tumor was pencil-thick and gray-colored, ten inches long from my neck-hair downward"). Here, for the first time, Price recounts without self-pity what became a long struggle to withstand and recover from this appalling, if all too common, affliction (one American in three will experience some form of cancer). He charts the first puzzling symptoms; the urgent surgery that fails to remove the growth and the radiation that temporarily arrests it (but hurries his loss of control of his lower body); the occasionally comic trials of rehab; the steady rise of severe pain and reliance on drugs; two further radical surgeries; the sustaining force of a certain religious vision; an eventual discovery of help from biofeedback and hypnosis; and the miraculous return of his powers as a writer in a new, active life. Beyond the particulars of pain and mortal illness, larger concerns surface here--a determination to get on with the human interaction that is so much a part of this writer It's much-loved work, the gratitude he feels toward kin and friends and some (though by no means all) doctors, the return to his prolific work, and the "now appalling, now astonishing grace of God." "A Whole New Life" offers more than the portrait of one brave person in tribulation; it offers honest insight, realistic encouragement, and inspiration to others who suffer the bafflement of catastrophic illness or who know someone who does or will.
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8vo, pp. 213. Ex library, with pocket removed from front, o/w a nice copy in dj. The story of the author's experience with spinal cancer, plus some of his poems.
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