{"product_id":"limbo-a-memoir-9780380732876","title":"Limbo: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom childhood, acclaimed novelist A. Manette Ansay trained to become a concert pianist. But when she was nineteen, a mysterious muscle disorder forced her to give up the piano, and by twenty-one, she couldn't grip a pen or walk across a room. She entered a world of limbo, one in which no one could explain what was happening to her or predict what the future would hold. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt twenty-three, beginning a whole new life in a motorized wheelchair, Ansay made a New Year's resolution to start writing fiction, rediscovering the sense of passion and purpose she thought she had lost for good. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirteen years later, still without a firm diagnosis or prognosis, Ansay reflects on the ways in which the unraveling of one life can plant the seeds of another, and considers how her own physical limbo has challenged--in ways not necessarily bad--her most fundamental assumptions about life and faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuminously written, \u003cem\u003eLimbo\u003c\/em\u003e is a brilliant and moving testimony to the resilience of the human spirit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. Manette Ansay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.14h x 5.34w x 0.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780380732876\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooksense '76 Sep\/Oct 2002\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2002 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnsay, A. Manette:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA. Manette Ansay is the author of eight books, including \u003cem\u003eVinegar Hill\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMidnight Champagne\u003c\/em\u003e (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and \u003cem\u003eBlue Water\u003c\/em\u003e. She has received the Pushcart Prize, two Great Lakes Book Awards, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches in the MFA writing program at the University of Miami.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45069862830195,"sku":"9780380732876","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_b611d6d5-de99-4b85-a8ba-e743702f76a8.jpg?v=1780605292","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/limbo-a-memoir-9780380732876","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}