Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir - Hardcover

Cohen, Richard M.

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9780060014094: Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060014091 ISBN 13: 9780060014094

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2004

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Traces the veteran journalist's struggles with multiple sclerosis and cancer while raising three children alongside his television host wife Meredith Vieira, in a memoir that addresses such issues as the nature of denial, the benefits of resilience, and the redemptive effects of a loving family. 75,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Eloquent and brutally honest." -- Seattle Times

"With aplomb and high character [Cohen] lays out.lessons in unflappable prose.. A sharp and affecting piece of perspective-setting." -- Kirkus Reviews

Eloquent and brutally honest. --Seattle Times

"[A] powerful memoir, tough in the way Cohen's old news bosses would have wanted it to be tough."--New York Times Book Review

"Eloquent and brutally honest."--Seattle Times

"With aplomb and high character [Cohen] lays out...lessons in unflappable prose.... A sharp and affecting piece of perspective-setting."--Kirkus Reviews

"Blindsided is beautifully written and utterly honest. May we all be so brave and caring in our own families."--Tom Brokaw

"I cannot remember ever being more profoundly moved by any book I have ever read....Don't miss this book."--Beverly Sills

"A powerful and agonizingly frank description of a life with which many chronically ill people and their families will identify."--Library Journal (starred review)

"[Blindsided] paints an incredibly sharp picture of what it is like to live passionately--with joy, love, and anger."--Dr. Harold Varmus, President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Former Director, National Institutes of Health

Synopsis:

Richard Cohen, a veteran writer, producer and distinguished journalist, has lived with multiple sclerosis for over 25 years. Recently diagnosed again with colon cancer, Cohen describes his lifelong struggle with multiple sclerosis, his first bout with colon cancer, a loving marriage to Meredith Viera, the effect of illness on raising children, and the nature of denial and resilience, all told with grace, humour, and lyrical prose. Cohen chronicles and celebrates a life brimming over with accomplishment, adversity and personal endeavour and his story has struck a chord with readers nation-wide. Autobiographical at its roots, reportorial and expansive, Blindsided builds on Cohen's story as a task aimed at emotional well-being, if not survival, pursued in sober tones that explore coping to its most redemptive and complex levels. Despite his extreme circumstances, Cohen's is a common struggle, recognizable as an integral part of humanity, and one which he explores with varying amounts of diligence, respect, personal revelation and humour.

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