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One More Theory About Happiness: A Memoir (2010)

by Paul Guest(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061685178 (ISBN13: 9780061685170)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Ecco Press

review 1: I did like this book, but I wanted much more. Guest goes into how he ended up in the wheelchair, and he spends a good deal of time talking about the ways he adapted to his accident. However, he does not talk much at all about his writing, why he became a poet, what he learned about writing along the way, or anything along those lines. He hints at such ideas, from time to time, but I really wish he would have spent much more time on that. Oddly enough, though, he and I lived in or around the same places, just missing each other a couple of times (such as in Tuscaloosa, AL, which he hated, and I greatly enjoyed).
review 2: This is Paul Guest's memoir about his life after becoming a paraplegic after a bicycle accident at age twelve. I was in a car accident as ... morea teenager, where I broke a vertebrae and spent much of my senior year of high school in a body cast. That said, Guest's description of that ethereal separation when you know you are hurt, but don't yet know how badly, was spot-on. I loved his poetic, yet factual, descriptions of the events of his life and appreciated the lack of self-pity. The story was sparse on details in many places, but the overall effect of the book was stunning. less

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