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Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 1993

Poet, essayist, and disability-rights activist Stewart writes "a remarkable first novel . . . less about disability than about the evolution of a reflective soul through the vehicle of disablement" (Orlando Sentinel). "A frank calls to arms."--San Francisco Bay Guardian.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Deft and unblinking, Stewart's debut features 30-year old Kate Meredith, who narrates in spare, explicit style her account of the three years following the removal of a tumor from her hip, chronicling both her coming to terms with new limitations and her development toward a life of independence.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

The epigraphs from Rilke, Heidegger, and Levertov found in the preface indicate both the nature and the quality of this tale of personal struggle. Using the journal form as structure, Stewart invites us into the world of Kate, a feisty and vivacious university English professor in her thirties who must adjust to the fact that she will never walk again after having a tumor removed from her hip. Once in her world, we meet Kate's friends and lovers and experience right along with her all the emotional turmoil, physical struggle, frustration, courage, fear, self-pity, and denial she experiences, as well as the final realization of self and of a new freedom. Stewart forces those not disabled to enter the world of the disabled and the disabled to confront a familiar world. Highly recommended.
- Jeris Cassel, Rutgers Univ. Libs . , New Brunswick, N.J.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.