Well, begin reading, anyway. All around me are books that I have begun, yet not finished. Is it my fault I forget where I have put them and then have to start over?
At any rate, author Gary Presley has asked me to spread the word, so I am doing so. From his email request:
Seven Wheelchairs: A Life beyond Polio was recently released by The University of Iowa Press.
The memoir is a history — an American tale — of my fifty year wheelchair journey after being struck by both bulbar and lumbar poliomyelitis after a vaccine accident in 1959. The Press says Seven Wheelchairs gives “readers the unromantic truth about life in a wheelchair, he escapes stereotypes about people with disabilities and moves toward a place where every individual is irreplaceable.”
Other reviewers have called Seven Wheelchairs “sardonic and blunt,” “a compelling account,” and “powerful and poetic.”
I hope you can mention Seven Wheelchairs on your blog. We all live different disability stories, I know, but perhaps if you find the memoir worthwhile, you might want to recommend the book to others who are curious about what polio or disability in general.
Of course, the book is also available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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Gary Presley www.garypresley.com
SEVEN WHEELCHAIRS: A Life beyond Polio
Fall 2008 University of Iowa Press
Looks intriguing. Carapace, want to get me another book to attempt to finish?
Everyone else, got any ideas for helping me get all the way through something before misplacing it and starting something else? I’ve read more halves of books than anyone I know.
