Look up For Yes - Softcover

Tavalaro, Julia; Tayson, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140272828 ISBN 13: 9780140272826

Publisher: Penguin, 1998

Synopsis

Presents the autobiography of a sixty-two-year-old woman who, at age thirty-two, came out of a seven-month-long stroke-induced coma and was conscious for six years before anyone realized she was not brain dead

About this title

From the Author

Wrting Look Up for Yes
I met Julia Tavalaro in the fall of 1991 when I was hired to teach a writing workshop at a New York City hospital. In 1993, after I was interviewed by Bill Moyers’ executive producer, I received a phone call from a New York Times reporter. I soon introduced this reporter to Julia. The outcome of this meeting was an article that partially documented Julia’s remarkable will to survive despite twenty-five years of physical, spiritual, and psychological trauma. After the Times article appeared, Julia and I began to write her autobiography. Using a letter board to communicate, we talked for more than fifteen hundred hours about her experiences in a public hospital. During the time it took to write this book, we were both pressed to our limits as writers and human beings. We each had our successes, too--publication of Julia’s poems in the Los Angeles Times and the publication of mine in the Paris Review and Pushcart Prize XXI. From the beginning I kept an intimate journal about what it was like to work with Julia, documenting the many obstacles and victories we experienced on our way to completing Look Up for Yes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140272828
• ISBN 13: 9780140272826
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240