Death Be Not Proud: A Memoir
Deeply moving, this true story relates a father's recollection of his son's courageous and spirited battle against the brain tumor that would take his life at the age of seventeen.
Deeply moving, this true story relates a father's recollection of his son's courageous and spirited battle against the brain tumor that would take his life at the age of seventeen.
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780060929893 (0060929898)
ASIN: 9780060929893
Publish date: 28-01-1998
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 206
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Adult,
Biography Memoir,
Inspirational,
Death
I'm not sure what to say about this book that won't sound horribly insensitive. But I honestly hated this book, I'm not say that no one would like (if so it would be 1 star) but I didn't. The father/writer tried to make his son sound so adult and so mature. But at the same time they told him nothing...
Thank goodness this book is so short. If it was any longer I really doubt I'd have made it through. It definitely touched me. There were some unrealistic moments, namely how Johnny was supposed to have talked. But maybe that is me being jaded and thinking of him with a 2009 mentality. Regardless, Jo...