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Waist-High in the World : A Life among the Nondisabled by Nancy Mairs (1997, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBeacon Press

ISBN-100807070874

ISBN-139780807070871

eBay Product ID (ePID)1140923

Product Key Features

Book TitleWaist-High in the World : Alife Among the Nondisabled

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen, People with Disabilities, Personal Memoirs, Women's Studies, Diseases / Musculoskeletal

Publication Year1997

GenreSocial Science, Health & Fitness, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorNancy Mairs

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.2 in

Item Weight9.1 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN96-021819

Dewey Edition20

ReviewsGraceful 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

Dewey Decimal362.1/96834

SynopsisIn a blend of intimate memoir and passionate advocacy, Nancy Mairs takes on the subject woven through all her writing- disability and its effect on life, work, and spirit., In a blend of intimate memoir and passionate advocacy, Nancy Mairs takes on the subject woven through all her writing: disability and its effect on life, work, and spirit.