Johnny in the Spot [Paperback]

Ed Gallagher (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 348 pages
• Publisher: Authorhouse (December 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585003794
• ISBN-13: 978-1585003792
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,064,010 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, educational, great book, September 21, 2000

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dan (VT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Johnny in the Spot (Paperback)

The author teaches us a lot about disability that many of us probably don't think about. He also reminds us that we must have the confidence to be who we want to be.

The story of the main character's (Johnny spokain) adolescence, is almost haunting. It reminds me of a stephen king story in its portrayal of the nasty things that children and adults do. I don't want to mislead anyone, though. The story rings very true.

If you want to read a great story and with lots of substance and you don't mind reflecting on adolescence, I would recomend this book for you.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful. Inspiring. A victory for the human spirit., July 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Johnny in the Spot (Paperback)

Author, Ed Gallagher, has not only broken the "glass ceiling" in literature for gays, but also slayed the demons that haunt them.

In a world where gay men are strictly defined as effeminate, weak, un-athletic sissy's who smile submissively with limp wrists, Ed Gallagher violates our cultural, societal, and global hallucinations. Gay men in general, and gay jocks in particular, will revel in the main character's revolution from within as he wrestles with such socially proscribed apparitions, and, surprisingly, survives as himself.

This book is for everyone - women and men, young and old, black and white, straight and gay, those with disabilities and those without. It is for anyone whose power has been limited by a lack of self-esteem and is inspired by gay men, whose self-esteem is making the deepest revolution.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Real Stuff About Crip Life, April 11, 2000

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Bob Guter, Editor, BENT (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Johnny in the Spot (Paperback)

One great strength of Johnny In the Spot is how Ed Gallagher makes the everyday details of disabled life such well-integrated story elements. By talking about the "real stuff," Gallagher satisfies the reader's curiosity about spinal injury while making Johnny neither heroic nor pitiful, but simply a man with life challenges different from the average guy's.