About this title: Corrigan's beautifully written memoir intertwines her own story with that of her larger-than-life, Irish-American, born-salesman father's, and illustrates both an unbelievably powerful and healing father/daughter relationship and the unbreakable bonds of family.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Voice
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781401340933ISBN:1401340938
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Fair. Purchasing this item supports Pierce County libraries. Thriftbooks and PCL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Purchasing this item supports Pierce County libraries. Thriftbooks and PCL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"Though I am quite certain Kelly Corrigan's neediness would annoy me in real life, it translates quite well in this memoir. I laughed, I cried, I could not put this book down. A moving memoir that captures how illness can propel you toward growth."
"A somewhat alienated friend of mine sent me a youtube video of Kelly Corrigan delivering a reading to a group of women. At the time I thought it was a little cheesy, considering we are not close friends anymore. Especially when her email message title read, "THIS IS US!!" This reading was all about taking care of and supporting each other through thick and thin. But then another friend of mine talked about reading the book for her book club, so I was intruiged. Now I can see why this must be wildly popular with book clubs. It is easy to read and a tear-jerker. A memoir, this story narrates Kelly's discovery of a lump in her breast and her subsequent chemo/radiation treatment. Along the way, her father is diagnosed with cancer as well and she straddles the bridge of being a child and a caregiver. The father is a delight and his personality permeates the book. It is clear that Kelly Corrigan is her father's daughter. I never really got a good sense of who she is, however. Her writing to me was clunky and self-conscious. I liked the structure of the book--she interweaves her life story with her present reality, but I was more saddened and moved by the death of her father (Greenie) than I was for her."
"This book was recommended to me by a clerk in a bookstore. I think it is his go-to suggestion for that thirty-something Mommy he believes is looking for a little more...Unfortunately, although I fit the type - not it.
I liked the first third of the book fine and then her father also got sick - and that is where she lost me. I immediately stopped liking her. Absolutely I had compassion from her desperate place, but I (like her family too) was unbelievably annoyed and frustrated by her behavior.
Yes, I understand, she is sick and it is much easier to worry/obsess about someone else then to deal with her own fears, but that is my problem. Where are her discovered coping skills? Where does she face her own fears about illness? What has she learned except she is still happily in the middle place?
There was no awakening in this book - just the facts, sometimes presented with humor, but no lessons learned about why, how or what if? It reminds me a little of Eat, Pray, Love - the central female voice is put in these sympathetic situations yet instead of shining through with grace, the dregs of ego break through with selfish fits and accusations. Both women do what all of us do when faced with crisis - we become children. We get mad, throw fits, become irritable, make accusations, blame others...and after awhile, maybe five minutes to never, our adult self steps in. Where is Ms. Corrigan's adult self?
When I finished the final page, my first thought was, What the hell was that? What is she imparting except cancer just happens and gratitude for her wonderful father to still be alive so she can stay in the middle place of being a parent yet still being parented to by parents...Do yourself a favor and skip it."
"I think I need a sabaticcal from ordinary joe/joanne memoirs. It all starts out OK, I'm enjoying myself, and then the person just starts to annoy me! As a woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer at a young age myself (41), I realy thought I would relate to her staory, and early on, I did. Her process and recovery would be of interest to me, but not so much the story of her life and her almost squeamishly strong attachment to her father. Sorry, but I'm just not interested in her jobs or how she met her husband. There's not enough here for someone who doesn't know her already to really be interested in and to learn from, let alone be inspired by. By the end, I was just racing through it. My advice, skip it."
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