The Best Seat in the House by Allen Rucker
The Best Seat in the House: How I Woke Up One Tuesday and Was Paralyzed for Life, by Allen Rucker, reviewed by Paul Lutenske, Branch Head, Butman-Fish Library
(HarperCollins, 2007, $24.95, 230 pp.)
Allen Rucker--baby boomer, husband, and father of two, is a TV writer who had spent over 20 years in a “checkered career on TV’s fringe”. Then in 1996, at the age of 51, he was struck out of nowhere by a rare condition called transverse myelitis, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. With honesty and humor (One of the chapters is titled: “Immobility as a Career Move”), Rucker takes us through what he and his family went through as they came to grips with the hand life had dealt him. This is an insightful, heartwarming and well-written read.
(HarperCollins, 2007, $24.95, 230 pp.)
Allen Rucker--baby boomer, husband, and father of two, is a TV writer who had spent over 20 years in a “checkered career on TV’s fringe”. Then in 1996, at the age of 51, he was struck out of nowhere by a rare condition called transverse myelitis, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. With honesty and humor (One of the chapters is titled: “Immobility as a Career Move”), Rucker takes us through what he and his family went through as they came to grips with the hand life had dealt him. This is an insightful, heartwarming and well-written read.
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