9781596915053-1596915056-Poster Child: A Memoir

Poster Child: A Memoir

ISBN-13: 9781596915053
ISBN-10: 1596915056
Edition: Reprint
Author: Emily Rapp
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Format: Paperback 240 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781596915053
ISBN-10: 1596915056
Edition: Reprint
Author: Emily Rapp
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Format: Paperback 240 pages

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Poster Child: A Memoir (ISBN-13: 9781596915053 and ISBN-10: 1596915056), written by authors Emily Rapp, was published by Bloomsbury USA in 2008. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Women (Specific Groups, Cultural & Regional) books. You can easily purchase or rent Poster Child: A Memoir (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Women books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.4.

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Emily Rapp was born with a congenital defect that required, at the age of four, that her left foot be amputated. By the time she was eight she'd had dozens of operations, had lost most of her leg, from just above the knee, and had become the smiling, indefatigable "poster child" for the March of Dimes. For years she made appearances at church suppers and rodeos, giving pep talks about how normal and happy she was. All the while she was learning to live with what she later described as "my grievous, irrevocable flaw," and the paradox that being extraordinary was the only way to be ordinary.


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"Rapp's precise and forthright descriptions of her exhausting physical ordeals and complex psychic wounds are simultaneously harrowing and fascinating, and they foster a strong bond between writer and reader...Rapp approaches the memoir as a supple, revelatory, involving and generous genre....She offers a fresh perspective on our obsession with physical perfection, especially the crushing expectations for women, and she writes delicately about the fears that disability engenders regarding intimacy and sex. Rapp's insider's view of the history of prostheses deepens our empathy and admiration for those who depend on artificial limbs, a growing population, once again, in yet another time of war and horrific injuries. Memoir, the conduit from the personal to the universal, is the surest way into the kind of significant psychological, sociological and spiritual truth Rapp is engaged in articulating. And there isn't one false note here. Not one inauthentic moment. No cheap manipulation. No self-importance...Her cauterizing specificity is compelling, her candor incandescent and her intelligence, courage and spiritual diligence stupendous."-Donna Seaman, Los Angeles Times
"You can't put down this excellent memoir ...Poster Child beautifully illustrates every human being's sometimes overt, sometimes co

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