| Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life Contributor(s): Johnson, Harriet McBryde (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312425716 ISBN-13: 9780312425715 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL OUR PRICE: $20.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2000 Annotation: With a voice as disarmingly bold, funny, and unsentimental as its author, this is a thoroughly unconventional memoir that shatters the myth of the tragic disabled life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | People With Disabilities - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Health & Fitness | Diseases - Musculoskeletal |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Physically Challenged - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Washington Post Book World Rave Harriet McBryde Johnson's witty and highly unconventional memoir opens with a lyrical meditation on death and ends with a bold and unsentimental sermon on pleasure. Born with a congenital neuromuscular disease, Johnson has never been able to walk, dress, or bathe without assistance. With assistance, she passionately celebrates her life's richness and pleasures and pursues a formidable career as an attorney and activist. Whether rolling on the streets of Havana, on the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, or in an auditorium at Princeton debating philosopher Peter Singer, Harriet McBryde Johnson defies every preconception about people with disabilities, and shows how a life, be it long or short, is a treasure of infinite value. |
Contributor Bio(s): Johnson, Harriet McBryde: - Harriet McBryde Johnson has been a lawyer in Charleston, South Carolina, since 1985. Her solo practice emphasizes benefits and civil rights claims for poor and working people with disabilities. She is the author of Accidents of Nature and Too Late to Die Young. |