MOVING VIOLATIONS

WAR ZONES, WHEELCHAIRS, AND DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE

Brossura, 416 pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 01 Gennaio 1995 da Hyperion.

ISBN:
978-0-7868-8162-8
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Numero OCLC:
31407910

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It is a story of obstacles - physical, emotional, and psychic - overcome again, and again, and again. Whether riding a mule up a hillside in Iraq surrounded by mud-stained Kurdish refugees, navigating his wheelchair through intractable stretches of Middle Eastern sand, or auditioning to be the first journalist in space, John Hockenberry, ace reporter, is determined not only to bring back the story, but also to prove that nothing can hold him back from death-defying exploits.

In this immensely moving chronicle - so filled with marvelous storytelling that it reads like a novel - John Hockenberry finds that the most difficult journey is the one that begins at home, as he confronts the memories of his beloved one-armed grandfather, and finally meets his institutionalized Uncle Peter, whose very existence was long a secret buried in the family history.

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