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A spring in my step / Joan McDonnell.
LIBRA RC180.2 .M35 2004 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDonnell, Joan, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McDonnell, Joan, 1951-.
- McDonnell, Joan.
- Poliomyelitis--Patients--Ireland--Biography.
- Poliomyelitis.
- People with disabilities--Ireland--Biography.
- People with disabilities.
- Poliomyelitis--Patients.
- Ireland.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 185 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Wilton, Cork : Collins Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- In this spirited, humorous story we follow Joan's adventures with the fears and frustrations of her 'handicap'. Stricken with polio as a child she heads to Dublin hoping for a miracle. After three years and numerous operations she returns home to Limerick, changed. She walks with callipers and her absence from the poverty of home creates problems -- Joan is a stranger there. She must learn to fit in. As she sits by the River Shannon watching other children play, she fears the challenge ... But with a theory about miracles and a penchant for breaking the rules, each disaster is a prologue to her next adventure. We marvel at her efforts to disguise her limp, attract boys and find acceptance. We rejoice, cry and laugh at her sometimes comically disastrous results! But Joan is instrumental in her own miracles ... And in a quest for love and romance, she explores all avenues. Could she possibly find love by correspondence? We hold our breaths ...
- Contents:
- 1. The Journey 1
- 2. The Big Lady 7
- 3. Home and Away 13
- 4. Learning the Lessons 22
- 5. Hungry for Knowledge 31
- 6. Hard Times 39
- 7. Getting the Boot 45
- 8. War and Peace 53
- 9. Broken Bread 61
- 10. The Dobber Champion 70
- 11. Lady of the Dance 78
- 12. Wisdom and Understanding 84
- 13. The Birds and the Bees 91
- 14. Poles and Poems 100
- 15. Shaking All Over 110
- 16. Breathless 118
- 17. Highs and Lows 125
- 18. Love Letters 136
- 19. Plato's Chair 148
- 20. Into the West 155
- 21. On Cloud Nine 164
- 22. Something Old, Something New 174.
- ISBN:
- 1903464609
- 9781903464601
- OCLC:
- 54975317
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