"One has to be a superb writer to lift the story about the wheelchair that Peter Weisman was confined in from his tenth year and waltz around with it so brilliantly. But that is what Weisman, who vowed that 'Peter's life must grow steadily and bravely upward,' has done. There are time when the power of Weisman's prose squeezes the heart like a sponge, but perhaps the best moments leave you laughing."-Phyllis Theroux, Washington Post
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"Weisman manages to bring a desperate humor to Intensive Care without undermining its awful seriousness." -- Anatole Broyard, New York Times
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Mary-Lou Weisman is the author of MY (MIDDLE-AGED) BABY BOOK: A Record of Milestones, Millstones and Gallstones(Workman Publishing Company, 1995.) She is also a contributing commentator on Public Radio International. An award-winning journalist, she has written serious and satiric essays and articles for the New York Times, The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly, among other publications.
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Mary-Lou Weisman is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author. Her published books include My Baby Boomer Baby Book; Traveling While Married; My Middle-Aged Baby Book: A Record of Milestones, Millstones & Gallstones; and Intensive Care: A Family Love Story. All of her books remain in print. Her essays, feature articles, interviews, and film and book reviews have appeared in many publications, among them The New Republic, Newsweek, Glamour, Vogue, Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Times. She has also contributed essays and commentary to Public Radio International. She lives in Westport, Connecticut, with her husband, a lawyer. Mary-Lou Weisman and Al Jaffee have been friends for more than thirty years.
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But much better written. You won't put this book down, I promise you. Mary Lou Weisman tells a heart-stopping tale of a family pulled into tragedy and that reaches out to touch--quite literally--the pulse of real life. It is hilarious, horrifying, gripping, enlightening, joyful. It is Love Story, ER, and Saturday Night Live rolled into one. You will fall in love with these people, as I did. YOu will learn something important about the meaning of love in the process.
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I didn't care for her description of sex with her husband. It feel it took away from her main story,her son.
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