The Nicholas Effect: A Boy's Gift to the World - Softcover

Green, Reg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449008410 ISBN 13: 9781449008413

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2009

Synopsis

The Nicholas Effect is the story of the shooting of seven-year-old Nicholas Green. It tells how the Greens' decision to donate their son's organs saved the lives of five Italians and restored the sight of two others. It covers the murder trial, the making of "Nicholas' Gift," the Jamie Lee Curtis made-for-tv movie, the bell sent by Pope John Paul II to the Greens for their memorial tower and their unceasing campaign to bring attention to the tens of thousands of deaths caused every year by the worldwide shortage of donated organs. Running through it, like a thread, is the heartbreaking journey of Nicholas' parents and little sister to make something good come out of a senseless act of violence.

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Review:

In 1994, when their seven-year old son Nicholas was killed during a botched car- jacking, Reg and Maggie Green galvanised all of Italy--and the world--by donating Nicholas's organs to seven desperately sick Italians, becoming a model of a grief-stricken family seeking to create good from horror, to reject vengeance in the face of great loss, to work for justice and to proclaim--with each of their grace-filled actions--the superiority of love over hate. In The Nicholas Effect: A Boy's Gift to the World, Reg Green recollects the events--the shooting, the choice to donate Nicholas's organs, the overwhelming Italian response, the trial of the alleged murderers and the Greens' worldwide crusade for organ donation. Since Nicholas's death, the seven Italians who received his organs have thrived--and so have thousands of others who have and will benefit from the worldwide surge in organ donations because of what's been dubbed "the Nicholas Effect." Green's account of this truly heartrending, life-changing story is intensely personal yet will touch every reader's heart and do something few "inspirational" books manage to actually do--change lives. --Ericka Lutz, Amazon.com

About the Author:

Reg Green is the father of Nicholas Green, a seven-year-old California boy, who was shot in a botched robbery during a family vacation in Italy. The decision by Reg and his wife, Maggie, to donate Nicholas' organs and corneas to seven very sick Italians, sent an electric shock around the world. Since then he has written innumerable articles on organ donation and another book, "The Gift that Heals," been interviewed by media around the world, (including Oprah, Barbara Walters and Katie Couric), and participated in making a made-for-tv movie, "Nicholas' Gift," starring Jamie Lee Curtis.

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1449008410
• ISBN 13: 9781449008413
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268