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Easy walking
"One dark night twenty-one-year-old Willie Nasaw went for a drive and ran out of road, leaving him with five back vertebrae that, on X-ray film, looked like a pile of crushed sticks. He was paralyzed from the waist down.
For someone else it might have been the end of the road, but not for Willie. Told in his own words, Easy Walking is the totally honest and outrageously funny account of Willie's six-month struggle to stand on his own two feet, literally and figuratively.
From the Stryker frame, which flips him over like a fried egg every four hours, to the hydrotherapy tank, where he sinks instead of swims, to simply learning to walk easy in a world that seems to be nothing more than a giant obstacle course--and from bitterness through acceptance to determination--Willie makes an awesome physical and mental journey, enduring along the way all the indignities and inanities of four different hospitals. And the cast of "characters"--Robo the Living Roach Clip, Dick the Cop (with a double hernia), Chalice, sweet loving cup of a nurse, and many others--could easily have been found in a comic novel were they not drawn from life.
The power of Easy Walking is generated by Willie Nasaw's irrepressible personality--by his guts, energy, and wit leaping from every page. There has never been a book quite like this, so filled iwth good vibrations from a young man who can't be kept down." -dust jacket
For someone else it might have been the end of the road, but not for Willie. Told in his own words, Easy Walking is the totally honest and outrageously funny account of Willie's six-month struggle to stand on his own two feet, literally and figuratively.
From the Stryker frame, which flips him over like a fried egg every four hours, to the hydrotherapy tank, where he sinks instead of swims, to simply learning to walk easy in a world that seems to be nothing more than a giant obstacle course--and from bitterness through acceptance to determination--Willie makes an awesome physical and mental journey, enduring along the way all the indignities and inanities of four different hospitals. And the cast of "characters"--Robo the Living Roach Clip, Dick the Cop (with a double hernia), Chalice, sweet loving cup of a nurse, and many others--could easily have been found in a comic novel were they not drawn from life.
The power of Easy Walking is generated by Willie Nasaw's irrepressible personality--by his guts, energy, and wit leaping from every page. There has never been a book quite like this, so filled iwth good vibrations from a young man who can't be kept down." -dust jacket
224 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1975
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About the author
Jonathan Nasaw
23 books147 followersJonathan Nasaw is the acclaimed author of Fear Itself and The Girls He Adored, both Literary Guild Selections. He lives in Pacific Grove, California.
Series:
* E.L. Pender
* James Whistler
Series:
* E.L. Pender
* James Whistler
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