Miracle Boy Grows Up: How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity - Tapa dura

Mattlin, Ben

 
9781616087319: Miracle Boy Grows Up: How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity
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ISBN 10: 1616087315 ISBN 13: 9781616087319
Editorial: Skyhorse, 2012

Sinopsis

Ben Mattlin lives a normal, independent life. Why is that interesting? Because Mattlin was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital weakness from which he was expected to die in childhood. Not only did Mattlin live through childhood, he became one of the first students in a wheelchair to attend Harvard, from which he graduated and became a professional writer. His advantage? Mattlin’s life happened to parallel the growth of the disability rights movement, so that in many ways he did not feel that he was disadvantaged at all, merely different. 
Miracle Boy Grows Up is a witty, unsentimental memoir that you won’t forget, told with engrossing intelligence and a unique perspective on living with a disability in the United States.

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Ben Mattlin was born in New York in 1962 with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital muscle-wasting disease. He graduated from Harvard in 1984 and is an NPR commentator and frequent contributor to many different financial magazines. He has written on disability and other topies for Self magazine, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. He has also appeared on CNN, ABC's Prime Time Live, and the E!Entertainment Network, amongst other shows, to discuss his disability-related writings. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Editorial
Skyhorse
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1616087315
ISBN 13 
9781616087319
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Número de páginas
208
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