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One More Theory about Happiness : A Memoir by Paul Guest (2010, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100061685178
ISBN-139780061685170
eBay Product ID (ePID)78858813
Product Key Features
Book TitleOne more Theory about Happiness : a Memoir
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
TopicPersonal Growth / Happiness, People with Disabilities, Personal Memoirs, Literary
GenreSelf-Help, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorPaul Guest
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight10.7 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-282361
Reviews[Guest] tells his story in short scenes that break to white space before they might prompt pity. He zigzags before we might hold him up as an example, a symbol...His memoir voice is gentle and matter-of-fact. His details are astounding and unforgettable., Sweet and beautiful and wrenching. By so generously providing a window into his own difficult experience, Guest shows us how profoundly fragile the human body truly is, how quickly our lives can be changed forever...and most importantly, how it's possible to create a new definition of wholeness., “Guest’s poems combine furious rage with furious excitement in long, breathless lines that, at the last possible moment, break.�, [A] graceful and unflinching account....a remarkable journey that Guest, who possesses a dark sense of the absurd and an eye for the vulnerability of both the injured and the whole, presents in scenes that run the gamut from the horrific to the sublime., Guest remembers; gently, carefully, painfully, each new milestone from the accident forward. He is blessed with a sharp sense of humor...it is an effervescent book: irrepressible, buoyant., [An] unbelievable story...[about] an unthinkable situation, a deep level of hell, really. Guest is never self-pitying, never gets sentimental; this is not feel good tripe, or inspirational; it is deeper and more important than that-smart and honest and clear eyed and above all, humane., [A] tightly written, candid memoir...[Guest] unearths a poet s faculty for succinct, smart description, narrating his own life in this memoir as a surprisingly dispassionate observer., Guest writes more directly than ever before about his paralysis.... Guest s work, which cannot redeem his brokenness or ours...makes something beautiful out of it. And that is enough., I read this book in one sitting....Heartbreakingly funny, pitilessly honest, [this] is above all a quiet and bold and loving work of art that renders beautifully what it means to live. You must read this book., Far from a saccharine triumph of the human spirit, Guest s memoir is marked by his winning humor and bare-naked honesty, distilled into poetic prose....alert[s] us to the amazing ability of the human body and mind to reconcile with an unbearable reality., Lean, arresting . . . With zero gush and sentiment, [Guest] conveys [a] quiet heroism . . . Guest is an unconventional and provocative observer of himself. And of us, the able-bodied., Never mawkish or grim, Guest s lyrical narrative ability tempers the heft of his experience, but the tender age at which he endured this grueling ordeal resonates on every page. Inspiring and courageous.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal811/.6 B
Synopsis"In these lyrical, searing pages, Guest manages to break our hearts and put them back together again." --Ann Hood In the tradition of Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face , One More Theory About Happiness is a bold and original memoir from the acclaimed, Whiting Award-winning poet Paul Guest, author of My Index of Horrifying Knowledge . A remarkable account of the accident that left him a quadriplegic, and his struggle to find independence, love, and a life on his own terms, One More Theory About Happiness has been praised by Charles Bock, author of Beautiful Children , as, "Smart and honest and clear eyed and above all, humane.", "In these lyrical, searing pages, Guest manages to break our hearts and put them back together again." --Ann Hood In the tradition of Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face, One More Theory About Happiness is a bold and original memoir from the acclaimed, Whiting Award-winning poet Paul Guest, author of My Index of Horrifying Knowledge. A remarkable account of the accident that left him a quadriplegic, and his struggle to find independence, love, and a life on his own terms, One More Theory About Happiness has been praised by Charles Bock, author of Beautiful Children, as, "Smart and honest and clear eyed and above all, humane."
LC Classification NumberPS3607.U47Z46 2010
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