In this memoir, writer Anne Finger explores the non-medical aspects of polio and reveals how it became an iconic disease because of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's experience. People who were post-polio formed the core of the early disability rights movement. Having been raised to overcome obstacles and "triumph" over their disabilities, they ...
Joe Findlay, guitar player in an Elvis impersonators show, is heading to New York City hoping to make it big, only to be detoured by a cast of characters that includes Fagan the Pagan, a wrestler doubling as a charismatic preacher, and a Tibetan monk.
Imagine a Hollywood encounter between Helen Keller and Frida Kahlo, 'two female icons of disability'. Or the story of 'Moby Dick, or, The Leg', told from Ahab's perspective. What if Vincent Van Gogh resided in a twentieth-century New York hotel, surviving on food stamps and direct communications with God? Or if the dwarf pictured in a seventeenth ...
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