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Loading... Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled (1996)by Nancy Mairs
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A different approach to the standard disabled biography. Nancy Mairs is very blunt, and at times shocking in her honesty. Her point of view is less that of a person with MS, and more from the approach of a women living life from a wheelchair. I appreciate her blunt appraisal and the various affects of an obvious disability while living life. ( ) A lot of other books refer to this book as the authoritative book in the biographies-of-people-with-MS category, and I think I went into it with above-average expectations due to this. The first few chapters almost had me putting it away, but it redeemed itself in the later chapters. I'm not sure there was anything about it that really bothered me, it just wasn't above-average like I went into it expecting. A fairly good, if inconsistent, MS-related-biograpy. no reviews | add a review
In a blend of intimate memoir and passionate advocacy, Nancy Mairs takes on the subject woven through all her writing: disability and its effect on life, work, and spirit. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)362.196834Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Social problems of & services to groups of people People with physical illnesses Services to people with specific conditions Diseases Diseases of nervous system and mental disorders Other organic diseases of central nervous systemLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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