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A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing
by Reynolds Price
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Scribner (2003-05-20)
ISBN: 0743238540
EAN: 9780743238540
Dewy Decimal #: 362.1969947110092
Paperback: 224 pages
SKU: 38389
Condition: New
Comments: THE SOFTBACK BOOK! SCRIBNER, 2003. THE UNABRIDGED 1ST EDITION. SOFTCOVER BOOK AND PAGES ARE NEW. Rapid shipping w/FREE tracking. GREAT PACKAGING . AIR MAIL. BL
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
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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Customer Reviews
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powerful book
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-03-08
THis is a great inspirational book for anyone suffering from a major life changing injury.
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Outstanding read
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-01-19
The best compliment I can provide is I'm buying more copies to give to friends. The book is thought provoking as well as extraordinarily uplifting.
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Eye opening
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-01-15
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Should be mandatory reading of all Medical Students and Residents. Disease process as seen and documentd by a patient. The physical, emotional, and spiritual swings a patient goes through during a long protracted illness.
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A TRUE STORY OF HOPE AND HEALING
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-07-07
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a book about severe illness and recovery. It is a true story of hope and healing told without self-pity. Price writes of being faced with a diagnosis of severe cancer of the spine. "Some vital impulse spared me needing to reiterate the world's most frequent and pointless question in the face of disaster - Why? Why me? I never asked it; the only answer is of course: Why not?"
In the same candid, sometimes funny, yet always affecting words, the popular and prolific author tells of his battle with disease. First struck down in 1984, he suffered through surgery, days of agonizing pain and was eventually confined to a wheelchair, unable to function professionally or personally.
He later sought treatment with a hypnotist at Duke University's psychiatric department with beneficial results. Throughout, Price gives credit to the power of prayer, which he calls "the first strong prop beneath my own collapse."
This is not only the story of an illness and recovery, it is the saga of resolve when confronted with a frightening enemy, and it is a tale of family and friendships, the human network that supports us.
Highly recommended.
- Gail Cooke
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Superb writing, an emotional journey
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-02-18
A very honest emotional description of experiences while dealing with a cancer, a surgery, radiation, learning how to live with pain as a companion, learning how to live as a "gimp"--word used by the author, and many other superbly described experiences. Just the right touch, just the right doze. Very subtle and lithe. Joy to read.
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