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This is a remarkable book: honest and beautifully written. While humorous and engaging, it also reminds one of the importance of acceptance and courage. Caroline Moorehead --Back cover endorsement
A remarkable act of self-understanding: brave and poignant, yet with no trace of self-pity. Colin Thubron --Back cover endorsement
Sarah Anderson lost her left arm to cancer when she was ten. This is her unflinching account - a death sentence, an amputation, and then the long slow struggle against other people s attitudes, namely their own fear. What she calls her search for her lost arm leads Anderson well beyond a moving personal history and into a broader investigation of the significance of the hand and arm in art and literature. The result is an absolutely fascinating and empowering book. Nicholas Shakespeare --Back cover endorsement
Dove Grey Reader - April 27th 2008
However this is not a book about making you feel guilty for having two arms. Thus far it is a book about grief, loss and awareness and much more besides. That said, nothing but nothing will prepare you adequately for this book other than a personal experience of amputation and to say I've had my eyes opened would be understating the effects of today's reading of the first 100 pages or so. What Sarah makes clear in her exceptionally well-written book is that if we were to meet, she would be the one to bear the burden of my embarrassment if I said something insensitive, and that's often how it is for people as they apologise for making the rest of us feel slightly awkward and uncomfortable, ' The burden always seems to lie with the disabled or bereaved person: again and again it is the way the person with the disability reacts that paves the way for other people's reactions...there is a very strong urge to apologise and somehow to take the blame.'
This is a remarkable book: honest and beautifully written. While humorous and engaging, it also reminds one of the importance of acceptance and courage. Caroline Moorehead --Back cover endorsement
A remarkable act of self-understanding: brave and poignant, yet with no trace of self-pity. Colin Thubron --Back cover endorsement
Sarah Anderson lost her left arm to cancer when she was ten. This is her unflinching account - a death sentence, an amputation, and then the long slow struggle against other people s attitudes, namely their own fear. What she calls her search for her lost arm leads Anderson well beyond a moving personal history and into a broader investigation of the significance of the hand and arm in art and literature. The result is an absolutely fascinating and empowering book. Nicholas Shakespeare --Back cover endorsement
Dove Grey Reader - April 27th 2008
However this is not a book about making you feel guilty for having two arms. Thus far it is a book about grief, loss and awareness and much more besides. That said, nothing but nothing will prepare you adequately for this book other than a personal experience of amputation and to say I've had my eyes opened would be understating the effects of today's reading of the first 100 pages or so. What Sarah makes clear in her exceptionally well-written book is that if we were to meet, she would be the one to bear the burden of my embarrassment if I said something insensitive, and that's often how it is for people as they apologise for making the rest of us feel slightly awkward and uncomfortable, ' The burden always seems to lie with the disabled or bereaved person: again and again it is the way the person with the disability reacts that paves the way for other people's reactions...there is a very strong urge to apologise and somehow to take the blame.'
Much more on Sarah's book soon but don't even wait that long, add this one to the list because it is a truly astonishing and unmissable read'.
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