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Whole New Life An Illness and a Healing

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ISBN-10: 0743238540

ISBN-13: 9780743238540

Edition: 2003

Authors: Reynolds Price

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Reynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters. InA Whole New Lifehe presents his most intimate story yet -- a memoir as compelling as any work of the imagination. In 1984, a large cancer was discovered in Price's spinal cord. Here, he recounts his battle to withstand and recover from this devastating affliction. He charts the first puzzling symptoms, three surgeries, the radiation that paralyzes his lower body, the occasionally comic trials of rehab, the steady rise of pain and reliance on drugs, and his discovery of biofeedback and hypnosis. Beyond the particulars, Price illuminates larger concerns, such as the gratitude he feels toward family…    
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Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 6/24/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Reynolds Price, the author of numerous volumes of fiction, poetry, memoir, plays, essays, & translation, has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the William Faulkner Award, & the Levinson, Blumenthal, & Tietjans poetry awards. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters & a regular commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered", he lives in Durham, North Carolina.