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It's Not Yet Dark de Simon Fitzmaurice

It's Not Yet Dark

Autor Simon Fitzmaurice Alan Smyth
en Limba Engleză CD-Audio – aug 2017

Impactul pe care Simon Fitzmaurice l-a avut asupra modului în care înțelegem reziliența umană depășește granițele cinematografiei sau ale literaturii; el a redefinit însăși dorința de a exista în fața unei sentințe medicale implacabile. Descoperim aici nu doar un jurnal al bolii, ci un manifest pentru viață, scris într-un mod aproape miraculos: litera cu literă, folosind doar mișcarea ochilor. Apreciem profunzimea acestui volum care transformă o diagnosticare de boală a neuronului motor într-o meditație luminoasă despre conexiunile umane și puterea iubirii.

Stilul său este de o simplitate tăioasă, o proză „stark” care elimină orice balast inutil pentru a ajunge la esența experienței. Considerăm că unicitatea perspectivei sale vine din refuzul de a se lăsa definit de limitările fizice, Fitzmaurice alegând să trăiască în prezent mai intens decât majoritatea oamenilor sănătoși. Cine a apreciat portretul vulnerabilității și onestitatea din What Matters Now de Gareth O'Callaghan va găsi aici aceeași profunzime biografică, aplicată însă unui context în care tehnologia devine singura voce a unui spirit neînfrânt. În timp ce alte memorii similare, precum A Short History of Falling de Joe Hammond, se concentrează pe pregătirea pentru sfârșit, It's Not Yet Dark este o celebrare a deciziei conștiente de a rămâne prezent pentru familie și pentru artă, în ciuda unui prognostic care îi oferea doar patru ani de viață.

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ISBN-13: 9781538475348
ISBN-10: 1538475340
Dimensiuni: 142 x 142 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Editura: BLACKSTONE AUDIO BOOKS

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Recomandăm această carte oricui caută o perspectivă onestă, lipsită de sentimentalism gratuit, despre forța spiritului uman. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege cum dragostea și creativitatea pot supraviețui celor mai dure limitări fizice. Cititorul câștigă o lecție valoroasă despre prezența conștientă și curajul de a alege viața, chiar și atunci când mediul exterior pare să se întunece definitiv.

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'If you are hungry for truth and beauty, read this book' Roisin Ingle, The Irish Times

'A demonstration of a will to live that is breathtaking ... a work of documentary poetry ... an extraordinary read' The Herald

'An unforgettable read about what it means to be alive' Woman's Way

'The world "inspirational" is over-used, but if ever a book deserved this epithet, this is it' Sunday Independent

'Sparsely and beautifully written .. the human spirit and will to live shines out of these pages' Irish Independent

A No.1 bestseller, It's Not Yet Dark is an unforgettable book about relationships and family, about what connects and separates us as people and, ultimately, about what it means to be alive.

In 2008, Simon Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (mnd). He was given four years to live.
In 2010, in a state of lung-function collapse, Simon knew with crystal clarity that now was not his time to die. Against all prevailing medical opinion, he chose to ventilate in order to stay alive.
Here, the young filmmaker, a husband and father of five small children draws us deeply into his inner world. Written using an eye-gaze computer and told in simply expressed and beautifully stark prose, the result is an astonishing journey into a life which, though brutally compromised, is lived more fully and in the moment than most, revealing at its core the power of love its most potent.

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International Bestseller  A People Book of the Week  A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick  A Barnes & Noble Best Biography of the Year  An iBooks Best Book of the Month An Amazon Best Memoir of the Month   “A fiercely eloquent testament to making the most out of every moment we're given.”   —People, Book of the Week   “Beautifully written. Utterly life-affirming.”   —Alan Rickman     “A beautiful love story - in its essence that's what this is. Survival stories are not about surviving, they're inherently about what makes a survivor push through. A desire to remain in the light of all creation, even as a darkening is taking place. A darkening which happens to us all.”  —Colin Farrell   “[A] gripping, affecting, sometimes funny read by a natural-born storyteller with something to say about the weight and the value of a life...If you need a story of courage, of heart, of coming back for more, of love and struggle and the power of both, It's Not Yet Dark could be the elusive thing you're after.”  —Joseph O'Connor   "Less a memoir of dying than a memoir of refusing to die...Vibrant."  —Minneapolis Star-Tribune   "In brief, often luminous vignettes, Fitzmaurice tells pieces of his story...Brave and honest, his memoir provides a fierce, sparkling constellation of small lights that gleam against the gathering dark."  —Shelf Awareness   "Powerful and moving...The heart of this inspirational book is Fitzmaurice's perseverance ('They gave me my life and I wouldn’t give it up') and his unflagging belief 'in the power to take what life throws at you and slowly to come back, to take all you have and not be crushed by sadness and loss.'"  —Publishers Weekly   "A fine and heartfelt memoir from an author hopeful in his determination to endure against the odds: 'What remains is desire.'"  —Kirkus   "Darkly funny and emotional, Fitzmaurice’s story is as inspirational as memoirs get – he even wrote the entire book with an eye-gaze computer. This is a true story about family, health, and the true meaning of life that you won’t want to miss."  —BookTrib   "A fierce, tender, and compelling examination of what it means to live."  —The Brooklyn Bugle   "Daringly, brutally poignant, It’s Not Yet Dark is the closest thing to pure love that I have read since The Shack and just as memorable...Like an Irish mist, It’s Not Yet Dark unveils all pretense of living with an illness that kills daily, that can terminate life at any moment, leaving the brilliance and elegance of a writer at his best, peeling his life like an onion, living with presence and love at every opportunity. Thrillingly, achingly authentic prose that reveals an inner life of one human being with the courage to live fully every single moment of his life.  Compromised as it is, Simon Fitzmaurice’s life is a complete and miraculous act of loving life."  —The Review Broads  Select Irish Praise for It’s Not Yet Dark    #1 Bestseller      “Part memoir, part stark document of the way [Simon] and his family have dealt with motor neuron disease, and part fierce celebration of being —

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“A fiercely eloquent testament to making the most out of every moment we’re given.”
—People Magazine, Book of the Week

In 2008, Simon Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was given four years to live. In 2010, in a state of lung-function collapse, Simon knew with crystal clarity he was not ready to die. Against all prevailing medical opinion, he chose life.  Despite the loss of almost all motor function, thanks to miraculous technology, he continued to work, raise his five children, and write this astonishing memoir. It’s Not Yet Dark is a journey into a life that, though brutally compromised, was lived more fully than most, revealing the potent power of love, of art, and of the human spirit. Written using an eye-gaze computer, this is an unforgettable book about relationships and family, about what connects and separates us as people, and, ultimately, about what it means to be alive.