by Mark Kram, Jr. During a football game in 1973, Buddy Miley, a promising high-school athlete, was paralyzed from the neck down. In 1997, after a quarter-century of imprisonment within his own body, and with his brother's help, he ended his life. Kram, a sports reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News who has written about Buddy over the years, focuses here not on the morbidities of Buddy's life, but on his close relationship with his brother, Jimmy, who spent years helping Buddy look for a cure and was instrumental in his assisted suicide (even as he harbored some deep misgivings). With a reporter's eye for detail and character, Kram takes what could have been a relentlessly depressing story and turns it into one that is equal parts hope and triumph. A potentially controversial book assisted suicide being a perennially hot-button issue it is genuinely inspiring. --Booklist (Check Catalog)
Friday, May 4, 2012
Like any normal day : a story of devotion
by Mark Kram, Jr. During a football game in 1973, Buddy Miley, a promising high-school athlete, was paralyzed from the neck down. In 1997, after a quarter-century of imprisonment within his own body, and with his brother's help, he ended his life. Kram, a sports reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News who has written about Buddy over the years, focuses here not on the morbidities of Buddy's life, but on his close relationship with his brother, Jimmy, who spent years helping Buddy look for a cure and was instrumental in his assisted suicide (even as he harbored some deep misgivings). With a reporter's eye for detail and character, Kram takes what could have been a relentlessly depressing story and turns it into one that is equal parts hope and triumph. A potentially controversial book assisted suicide being a perennially hot-button issue it is genuinely inspiring. --Booklist (Check Catalog)
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