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Product Description: "An insightful, poignant, light-hearted and often hilarious memoir" (Jay McInerney).  Ben Mattlin lives a normal, independent life. Why is that interesting? Because Mattlin was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital muscle weakness from which he was expected to die in childhood...read more

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9781616087319 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, August 14, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "An insightful, poignant, light-hearted and often hilarious memoir" (Jay McInerney).

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Product Description: Called the best essayist of his time by luminaries like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland brings readers his ultimate collection. In Sex and the River Styx, the author's sharp eye and intense curiosity shine through in essays that span his childhood exploring the woods in his rural Connecticut, his days as a circus worker, and his travels the world over in his later years...read more

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9781603583367 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, February 7, 2011, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Called the best essayist of his time by luminaries like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland brings readers his ultimate collection.

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9781603583374 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, February 7, 2011, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Called the best essayist of his time by luminaries like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland brings readers his ultimate collection.

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A candid, literary memoir by the author of the critically acclaimed author of The Tugman's Passage describes his writing career, the growing blindness that transformed his life, causing an increasing dependence, isolation, and inertia, and the technology that restored his sight and the implications of that miracle in terms of his personal and professional worlds. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

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9780375402463 | Pantheon Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author describes the growing blindness that transformed his life, causing an increasing dependence and isolation, and the technology that restored his sight and the implications of that miracle for his personal and professional lives.

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9780375702402 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 26, 2002), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A candid, literary memoir by the author of the critically acclaimed author of The Tugman's Passage describes his writing career, the growing blindness that transformed his life, causing an increasing dependence, isolation, and inertia, and the technology that restored his sight and the implications of that miracle in terms of his personal and professional worlds.

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