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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780807070871
Mairs takes on the subject woven through all her writing:
disability and its effect on life, work, and spirit.
Graceful yet gritty paradoxes drive this extraordinary book,
which uses the author’s degenerative disease, multiple sclerosis,
as a window into a very particular soul. . . . Let the reader
understand: this is not a book about MS, or about illness; rather,
it’s a chronicle of inspired adaptation, spiritual as well as
physical, to limits. The aim is the creation of joy. -Sallie
Bingham, The New Mexican
”Woe is not her, as she makes clear throughout this absorbing,
laceratingly honest book. . . . This social construction of
disability . . . is what Mairs most wants us to ‘get’ in this
passionate, penetrating book-and then get over.” -Marian Sandmeier,
The Washington Post Book World
”Vintage Mairs: sharply observed, deeply personal and always
direct.” -Michael Haederle, Los Angeles Times
”As helpful as Mairs’s book will be to disabled people, what’s
most important about it is its lessons for able-bodied readers.”
-Kathi Wolfe, The Progressive
”Rich, startling and utterly absorbing.” -Kirkus Reviews, starred
review
”Mairs’s physical view of the world may be waist-high, but her
intellectual and spiritual range is limitless.” -Donna Seaman,
Booklist, starred review
”‘One sharp instrument is left me: my tongue.’ This [Mairs]
wields like a finely crafted baton, leading her readers to an ever
deeper understanding of the human condition.” -Yvonne Duffy,
Detroit Free Press
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