This beautiful and sensitive book explores how people trapped in chronic illness or who are recovering from a catastrophic accident learn strategies of coping and healing. Contributors include Jane Smiley, Dennis Covington, Linda Hogan, and Andrew Sullivan.
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This beautiful and sensitive book explores how people trapped in chronic illness or who are recovering from a catastrophic accident learn strategies of coping and healing. Contributors include Jane Smiley, Dennis Covington, Linda Hogan, and Andrew Sullivan.
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Very Good+ 0452277566. 280p. Fourteen prominent writers explore what illness means in the context of their lives. Jane Smiley, Linda Hogan, Andrew Sullivan at al. New copy.; 12mo.
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Ex-library book. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting.
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Very Good. Nice book! Mild shelf wear & no spine creases on cover. Lightly aged pages, no markings in text.. From Booklist: The notion of ""the stages of grief"" having become part of general consciousness, editors Foster and Swander promote the idea that the process of recovery and healing has definable stages, too, that should be recognized by mass culture. Recovery from serious illness or accident does not mean the condition's disappearance, they argue, but a complex series of personal definitions and rediscoveries resulting from health changes. The personal essays they present illuminate things not much known about the path of recovery, such as that illness, particularly chronic, long-term conditions, can place sufferers into ""private exile, "" a predicament in which they must set aside the concept of recovery as a return to a safer past and develop coping attitudes and techniques that may lead to inner healing. The particular attitudes and techniques presented in the essays emphasize that life can remain an adventure, even in the face of crippling injury or AIDS, and each attitude or technique is as unique as the writer who presents it. Whitney Scott.
