A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing
Worth buying if: You value memoirs that confront illness directly and reflect on healing.
Skip it if: You want a novelistic story with invented characters and a conventional plot.
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Summary
In this memoir, Reynolds Price writes about an illness and the healing that follows. The book stays close to the personal weight of bodily change and recovery.
Why this book now
Price’s account offers a focused way to consider how illness can alter a life and the meaning drawn from recovery.
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Good fit if you want...
- You value memoirs that confront illness directly and reflect on healing.
- You prefer intimate nonfiction centered on personal experience rather than plot.
- You want a novelistic story with invented characters and a conventional plot.
- You are looking for medical advice, clinical analysis, or a comprehensive history of illness.
- You only want something with very current references and examples.
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Exact edition: Edition shown · ISBN-13 9780743238540
Worth buying if: You value memoirs that confront illness directly and reflect on healing.
Skip it if: You want a novelistic story with invented characters and a conventional plot.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
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Reading commitment
Light Short sit-downs
At 224 pages, this is a relatively focused memoir, though its subject invites pauses for reflection.
What stands out here
This 2003 Simon & Schuster edition presents Reynolds Price’s 224-page memoir under its full title and subtitle.
Best way to approach it
Read it as a sustained personal meditation on illness and healing, giving its reflective passages room to land.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780743238540
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