About this title: At the heart of this wonderful biography is the relationship between two great American women whose lives were bound together for all time. Joseph P. Lash, author of Eleanor and Franklin, follows this gifted, passionate, and humanly flawed pair for 100 years, from Annies childhood in an almshouse in the 1860s, through decades of international ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Allen Lane, London
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780713913637ISBN:0713913630
Description: Good. xiv, 811p., [48]p. of plates: ill., 1facsim., ports.; 24 cm. Originally published: New York: Delacorte / Seymour Lawrence, 1980. Text on lining papers. 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. Former Library book. 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
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Amer Foundation for the Blind
ISBN-13:9780440535096ISBN:0440535093
Description: Good. 0440535093 Condition: GOOD. (Book may have one or a combination of the following characteristics: former library book, dust jacket missing, cover wear, name written inside cover, considerable underlining/highlighting, remainder mark, binding loose, binding slants, pages tanning / curling, etc. Overall, the book is in decent shape. This is a blanket description. Please email us if you require a specific, detailed description of the book condition. We will typically respond within one week ... read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. 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
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Merloyd Lawrence
Date Published: 1981-08
ISBN-13:9780440535096ISBN:0440535093
Description: Fair. Some general age and use wear: reading lines down spine, some foxing to pages and sun stains to cover; pages are clean and tight; good reading copy. Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Description: Good. B000H3PUR8 Hardcover BOOK CLUB EDITION with heavy shelf-wear, rubbing, fraying, tears, fading, foxing, chipping and bumping to dust jacket cover, board edges, corners, and spine. There are one or more severe dust jacket tears and small pieces missing. The inside pages have tanned with age. Inside pages are free from underlining, note taking, and/or highlighting. Book is in stock and ready to ship same or next business day. Select Expedited shipping and receive your book within 3-5 ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Delta/seymour Lawrence, New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780440535096ISBN:0440535093
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. 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
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, NY USA: Delacorte Press, 1980, First Edition
ISBN-13:9780440036548ISBN:0440036542
Description: Large octavo, hardcover, VG in lightly edgeworn white pictorial dj. Biographies of Helen Keller (who was born deaf and dumb) and her patient governess and instructor, Anne Sullivan Macy. Photographs. 811 pp. Endpapers give chronology from 1866 to 1968. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Dell Publishing, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780440036548ISBN:0440036542
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0440036542. 1980 first edition cloth hard cover in excellent condition. Dust jacket in very good condition. Price clipped. Mylar cover. read more
"I read this book a couple years ago. It is truly two biographies in one ... with the author very successfully weaving the two together to help us discover the complexities of the releationship between Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan. He does not skip over their borderline pathological dependency issues ... while at the same time celebrates the remarkable gifts that make these women two of the most interesting women of the 20th century. This is a wonderfully enlightening book for all who want to go beyond the familiar "stuff" we all know about Helen and Teacher. Interestingly, Helen Keller had a real "spirituality" about her ... speaking often of God (without ever really indicating what many of us would call a saving commitment to Christ)... I'm so thankful we leave those issues to a just and loving God. While Helen was definitely more "physically" handicapped, Annie Sullivan was definitely more "spiritually empty" individual ... and heartbreakingly so. For the most part, she wanted nothing to do with God and at times, I found myself longing to read that she finally found the Savior Who could have filled her spiritual emptiness. I could hardly put this book down ... even though its length can appear daunting !!"
"Highly recommended. It's a long haul at 800+ pages, but it's very interesting to find out about what happened to Helen and Anne Sullivan after those 'golden' childhood years that are often all that's talked about in lesser biographical accounts. For example, Helen's commitment as a suffragist, a socialist and a supporter of birth control were completely unknown to me, as were the years she, Annie and Polly Thompson (her interpreter following Annie's illness and death) spent on the vaudeville circuit during the thirties to make ends meet after the lecture circuits that had helped to support them previously dwindled and died with the economy.
Don't think that because of its length that it's dull or dry. It's not. Lash gives a very clear picture of Helen's life, from her early years through to her twilight years. He's thorough and sensitive, and his writing allows you to feel the growth of Helen, through her changing temperament and views, and her evolving mind. Anyone who wants to know about the other eighty or so years of Helen's life that are rarely mentioned should definitely track down this book. It's a keeper."
"*gasping* Such a long book. An amazingly long book, in tiny-tiny print. 820 pages, with maybe about 120 pages' worth of interesting information. The rest ... well, Helen Keller was really into politics and philosophy and travel ... and this biographer was really into dry details.
I mean, my understanding is that, at a certain point in her life, Helen Keller had her real eyes replaced with glass ones. Did this book mention that interesting fact in 820 pages? Nope. But it managed to talk about her interest in Swedenborgian religion for endless pages.
I'm gonna stick with "The Miracle Worker" as my source material for Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan from now on."
"Joseph Lash goes far beyond the legend of the water pump into the complex lives of these two dynamic women. Neither Helen nor Anne were saints; they were flesh-and-blood women with neuroses and frustrations, and Lash delves into these thoroughly, and yet with sensitivity."
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