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I Am the Central Park Jogger

A Story of Hope and Possiblity

ISBN: 0743244370
ISBN-13: 9780743244374
Format: Hardcover

Summary

In 1989, Trisha Meili was attacked while jogging after work in New York City's Central Park. She suffered serious wounds, and, when found, was near death. Her case stunned the city, and the city's tabloids tracked the arrest and trial of several youths who were found to have been in the park that night. Until publication of this book, she was known to the public only as "the Central Park jogger." Here, Meili writes of her long road to recovery, the small steps that meant a lot, and the many people who helped her along the way.

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''I AM THE CENTRAL PARK JOGGER is a very personal book. Told without anger or resentment, it will comfort and inspire anyone who has suffered a horrible trauma - and many who haven't. Whether Meili's conclusions about the mind-body connection, her rapture on learning how to eat a raisin 'with awareness,' are helpful or embarrassing is beside the point. They are both. And even if they are mostly the latter, the mere fact that she is here to write them is remarkable." -- Michael Newman

-- New York Times Book Review

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 2003
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.1 pounds
Pages: 304

Publisher's Notes

The center of the 1989 case recounts the discovery of her badly injured body, her treatment and rehabilitation, the trials of the suspects, and her subsequent experiences.

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I Am the Central Park Jogger: a Story of Hope and Possiblity

Meili, Trisha

[ISBN: 0743244370]

Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Scribner, 2003. Hard Cover. Very Good. Very Good in Very Good jacket 8vo-over 7Â¾"-9Â¾" tall. DJ corner clipped.. (more information)

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