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Title: A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing by Reynolds Price ISBN: 0743238540 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: One test of a good book is...
Comment: One test of a good book is this: does it change the way you live your life or how you look at people. Reynolds Price, professor of English at Duke University, explores in this work a theme that hits everyone but that we don't often consider, or wish to consider, that is, the effect of major trauma on one's life and the life of one's friends, and perhaps everyone else around you.
RP tells the story of his own experience with spinal cancer in a bold, unflinching, but intensely personal way. One of the themes of the work is how profoundly a patient is affected by the attitudes and communication habits of medical care professionals. While he has tremendous praise for those who showed loving concern for him in his difficult times, he also wonders why some were so callous. For instance, he was informed of his tumor by two doctors while lying on a gurney in a crowded hallway. "What would those tow splendidly trained men have lost if they'd waited to play their trump til I was back in the private room for which Blue Cross was paying our mutual employer, Duke [University], a sizable mint in my behalf?"
Also wonderful in this book are his lessons/recommendation for those who have undergone similar tragedies such as this: "Generous people - true practical saints, some of them boring as root canals - are waiting to give you everything on Earth but your main want, which is simply THE PERSON YOU USED TO BE."
For me at least, this book helped change how I look at people, and I hope, will give me strength to deal with the traumas that will undoubtedly come someday to me and those I love.
Rating: 5
Summary: Honest, insightful, earthy
Comment: I took a long time to read this book so that I could think about all that Mr. Price said, there was so much--about being a person struck down with a "catastrophic" illness, what it is like to lose the ability to walk or do anything else with your legs, about having cancer and wondering when it is coming back, navigating a large medical complex, about being a different person because of it all, about embracing that different person rather than resisting him, about what is most important about caregivers, doctors, nurses and friends. (Mr. Price has awesome friends who basically would go to the ends of the earth for him). I learned so much and found Mr Price's writing to be so honest and earthy and insightful. i hated coming to the final chapter. but loved what it had to say. i would recommend this book to everyone, it is a wonderful look at one's own humanity and that of others. Please also read "Letter to a Man in the Fire." after you have read "A whole new life." I read them the other way around, but it is more meaningful to read "a whole new life" first. Every member of every medical discipline should read this book--nurses, doctors, physical therapists, and students of all disciplines. As an oncologist, I learned a lot about how patients feel and what they might need.
Rating: 5
Summary: Price fan and cancer survivor
Comment: I first read this in 1995, during the long week prior to surgery to remove a growing mass of cancer that, thankfully, has never revisited me. Aside from, once again, being awed by Price's magic with otherwise common words, it was especially comforting to read the very heart of a man whose prose I had read and long admired, someone who had survived a similar experience. Price is, hands down, my favorite writer.
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Title: Letter To A Man In The Fire: Does God Exist And Does He Care by Reynolds Price ISBN: 0684856271 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: A Serious Way of Wondering by Reynolds Price ISBN: 0743230086 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: THREE GOSPELS by Reynolds Price ISBN: 068483281X Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Feasting the Heart: Fifty-Two Commentaries for the Air by Reynolds Price ISBN: 0743203690 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: KATE VAIDEN by Reynolds Price ISBN: 0684846942 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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