Christina Olson: Her World Beyond the Canvas [Paperback]

Jean Olson Brooks (Author), Deborah Dalfonso (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Down East Books; 1 edition (July 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892724048
• ISBN-13: 978-0892724048
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,003,564 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For anyone with CMT, a MUST-read, April 8, 2011

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Valerie Dawes - See all my reviews

This review is from: Christina Olson: Her World Beyond the Canvas (Paperback)

Readers will read this fascinating book in one or two sittings...

Christina Olson is most likely one of the most mis-understood people made famous by American art... (Andrew Wyeth's "Christina's World")

We have judged her life from one famous glimpse of her; lying (or crawling), in a beautiful field of grasses, clothed in a pink dress, looking toward a weathered old farmhouse.

We are so wrong....

Christina's World is recalled by her niece - a life in rural, costal Maine; a strong loyal family, a fiercely independent, intelligent young woman as she ages, struggling to live with an undisclosed (un-diagnosed) disability.

I picked up this book because I am afflicted with a funny-sounding, hereditary, progressive disease - Charcot-Marie-Tooth; and I have heard that most likely this is what Christina suffered from as well.

You will be touched by her life and her friends and family. You most likely will also be haunted by her resolve in the face of living a difficult "luck of the draw".

6 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I think that this is a great book and that it should be used, October 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Christina Olson: Her World Beyond the Canvas (Paperback)

HELLO, my name is JIll Dalfonso. And yes Deborah is my mother. I really think that this book is great. And not just because she's my mom. My mother spent hours and hours trying to make a plain manuscript into a miraculous book. My mother's other books have been used as teaching guides in other colledges. Ithink that this book is just prefect for this. It has every quality that teachers should look for. I believe that it is intersting for every age and type of reader! Thank You!!!