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Genre/Form: | Biography Narrative non-fiction Autobiographies Biographies |
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Named Person: | Gail Caldwell; Gail Caldwell; Gail Caldwell |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gail Caldwell |
ISBN: | 9781400069545 1400069548 |
OCLC Number: | 843785181 |
Description: | 164 pages ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | by Gail Caldwell. |
Abstract:
Pulitizer Prize winner Gail Caldwell pens a memoir on how seemingly faint winds can blow us wildly off course; on how spending time with a beloved animal can benefit our basic humanity; and on what it means to overcome, at middle age, a multitude of blows. Caldwell had contracted polio as a child, and as she matured it reduced her walk to a painful limp. When a new doctor said she needed a hip replacement-- and that her leg could be lengthened-- she no longer saw her body in decline and realized she could live pain free. She describes how the resulting rehabilitation opened up a world of understanding, possibility, and connection.
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