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Tumbling After
Pedaling Like Crazy After Life Goes Downhill
by Susan Parker
ISBN: 0609608568
ISBN-13: 9780609608562
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
When this memoirist's husband became a quadriplegic after a bicycling accident, a couple who once braved the slopes and camped with passion refocuses their energy just to cope with getting him out of bed each morning and back in every night. Parker shares her experience with wit and honesty.
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"Deft, compelling, and unexpectedly enterataining."
-- Kirkus
"TUMBLING AFTER is a brave look at life with a disabled person. Parker does not shy away from the grim particulars of day-to-day living or the psychic toll it takes upon her and Ralph. She takes us into her therapists' offices, asks us to share the horror she feels seeing her husband covered with open bedsores, reveals her prejudices and her fears. But Parker leavens TUMBLING AFTER with heavy doses of humor, humanity and hope...Offering a window into understanding what life is like for her and her husband is a gift Parker gives to her readers." -- Miriam Wolf
-- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"Anyone who has recently experienced indigestion while perusing one of those 'misfortune made me a better person' memoirs will find a bracing antidote in this unheroic tale of muddling through...Parker has no epiphanies to share and no inspirational life lessons to impart, except the only one that's invariably true: Life is just full of surprises."
-- Philadelphia Inquirer
"Parker talks about coping with the trials of her new life with such darkly mordant wit and an almost complete absence of self-pitying whine that it makes her tale of survival more than palatable. It is a compelling page turner that is vividly descriptive, achingly moving, and surprisingly laugh-out-loud funny." -- Karen Campbell
-- Boston Globe
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 2002
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.25 x 9 inches
Weight: 0.95 pounds
Pages: 283
Publisher's Notes
The author, an avid outdoorswoman, describes how a freak cycling accident transformed her husband into a quadriplegic and turned her own life upside down as she became his full-time caregiver and profiles the frequently offbeat neighbors and friends who played a key role in her new world.
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NY: Crown, 2002. (Uncorrected Proof). Trade Paperback. NEAR FINE. Tight, bright, clean and square. Light edgewear and rubbing to covers. "chronicles Suzy's transformation from carefree outdoorswoman to full-time caregiver, and the impromptu, oddball family of concerned neighbors she forms along the way." ISBN: 0609608568. ( more information) Offered by Rainy Day Paperback Exchange (United States)
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