Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: a Reluctant Memoir - Brossura

Cohen, Richard M.

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ISBN 10: 0060014105 ISBN 13: 9780060014100

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2005

Riassunto

Traces the veteran journalist's struggles with multiple sclerosis and cancer while raising three children alongside his television host wife Meredith Vieira, in a memoir that addresses such issues as the nature of denial, the benefits of resilience, and the redemptive effects of a loving family. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“[A] powerful memoir, tough in the way Cohen’s old news bosses would have wanted it to be tough.” (New York Times Book Review)

“...a warm, sarcastic, unflinching dissection of love, pain, laughter and wounded pride.” (Chicago Tribune)

“Eloquent and brutally honest.” (Seattle Times)

“With aplomb and high character [Cohen] lays out...lessons in unflappable prose.... A sharp and affecting piece of perspective-setting.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“A powerful and agonizingly frank description of a life with which many chronically ill people and their families will identify.” (Library Journal (starred review))

“Blindsided is beautifully written and utterly honest. May we all be so brave and caring in our own families.” (Tom Brokaw)

“I cannot remember ever being more profoundly moved by any book I have ever read....Don’t miss this book.” (Beverly Sills)

“[Blindsided] paints an incredibly sharp picture of what it is like to live passionately―with joy, love, and anger.” (Dr. Harold Varmus, President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Former Director, National Institutes of Health)

L'autore:

Richard M. Cohen's distinguished career in journalism earned him numerous awards, including three Emmys and a George Foster Peabody Award. He lives outside New York City with his wife, Meredith Vieira, and their three children.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060014105
• ISBN 13: 9780060014100
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 242