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“There is a small but discrete literature by writers who have experienced personal or family tragedy: William Styron on his depression, Reynolds Price on his paraplegia, Kenzaburo Oe on his brain-damaged son. . . . To read these stories can deepen everyone's humanity. Too Late to Die Young can proudly take its place among these other important books.†―The Washington Post“A remarkable portrait of a woman who is proof that the disabled can live lives filled with purpose and pleasure.†―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Masterfully pace and structured . . . Too Late To Die Young serves as both a memoir and a kind of revolutionary act itself.†―Mary Johnson, Ragged Edge Online“Readers inclined to feel sorry for people with disabilities . . . [should] read Johnson's feisty book instead.†―Publishers Weekly“Johnson's rich, descriptive writing, humor, and Southern cadence make the book entertaining, thought-provoking, and meaningful.†―The Post and Courier (Charleston, South Carolina)“She insists on being her own complicated person, a Southern lady, for instance, as well as a socialist, an atheist, a lawyer, and a born storyteller with a wicked sense of humor. . . . But her writing is so vibrant, so interesting, and so funny that you can't help but feel as if you're in her world, sitting beside her and hearing her story for yourself.†―The Tampa Tribune“This lady pulls no punches. An entertaining look at an activist who insists on living life her way, disability or no; strongly recommended.†―Library Journal“A wonderful mix: a keen mind, exuberance, activist politics, along with a special brand of Southern women's wit.†―Adrienne Rich
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About the Author
Harriet McBryde Johnson has been a lawyer in Charleston, South Carolina, since 1985. Her solo practice emphasizes benefits and civil rights claims for poor and working people with disabilities. For more than twenty-five years, she has been active in the struggle for social justice, especially disability rights. She holds the world endurance record (fourteen years without interruption) for protesting the Jerry Lewis telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. She served the City of Charleston Democratic Party for eleven years, first as secretary and then as chair. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine and to the disability press.
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Product details
Paperback: 276 pages
Publisher: Picador; First edition (February 21, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780312425715
ISBN-13: 978-0312425715
ASIN: 0312425716
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.7 out of 5 stars
26 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#231,216 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I read and loved this book years ago and recently bought it for my 19 year old granddaughter, who is a college freshman & has cerebral palsy. Harriett was a tremendously inspiring woman who lived a happy, fulfilling life, in spite of her disability. For many years, she didn't think she had long to live after accidentally watching (by herself, when she was a child) the Jerry Lewis' telethon, which portrayed muscular dystrophy as an affliction to be pitied. Much to her surprise, she kept on living and went on to become a disability rights attorney and, as witnessed here, a wonderful writer who takes you into her world with honesty & humor.
Wow!I picked up this book on recommendation thinking it would be "important" to read. The title sounded a little too serious for me and yet seemed "important", yet I remembered reading one of these essays before and really enjoying McBryde Johnson's voice.Right now I am trying to talk about the book but I no longer have it with me--when I read "Too Late to Die Young" what I discovered was Harriet McBryde Johnson's rich rich humour-filled wonderfully strong and human voice...and by human I mean, she lets you in to things that many people keep hidden--her feelings, her doubts, her sometimes brashness and outspokenness, her offense, her bodily and social realities...yet this book seems rooted in McBryde Johnson's humor, delight, and pointed truth-telling.She talks to the reader as if talking to a friend, a good friend...and one feels glad to be intimately connected (in a way: ) ) to Harriet McBryde Johnson...Enjoy!
This collection of autobiographical stories and essays is compelling, startlingly honest, and a real page-turner. I did not want it to end, and I want to know what happens next. Harriet is unconventional, funny, charming, sharp-witted, and has a true Southerner's ability to spin a yarn. Her account of meetings and conversations with Peter Singer, Princeton professor and proponent of the idea that parents should have the right to extinguish the lives of profoundly disabled children, is fascinating, chilling, thought-provoking and haunting. Admittedly living with the kind of disability that Professor Singer believes warrants extermination at birth, Harriet punctures the underlying assumptions that inform such beliefs--that disabled people are "worse off," that their quality of life is diminished. Harriet herself explodes the stereotype, and it should be noted that she is, most emphatically, NOT one of Jerry's kids. But this is not a book merely about disability, or disability rights. It is a good yarn, told by an enchanting writer, about interesting people, and I for one hope there are more stories on the way.
I came across this book of autobiographical essays when I was trying to learn more about the experience of living with cerebral palsy. Although that may not have been the late Johnson's exact diagnosis, this book stood out as the very best. Great, frank, outspoken writing of a life richly lived. Disabilities or no, it should be added to our core list of outstanding American memoirs. Johnson "young adult" novel Accidents of Nature, about a camp for disabled kids around 1970, is also autobiographical and well worth reading for any age.
For many years, I always found a way to work ms. Johnson's NYTimes article into my college classroom. And then there was the year I didn't - and ended up in a power chair myself. How ironic! And these tales are so important, her voice so clear. I miss her, and am sorry she is gone, but so happy to have her book as a living legacy for all of us, with bodies disabled or not. Thank you Ms. Mc Bryde Johnson
She's an important voice that's not heard often enough.
This has been a good year for disability rights in terms of publications. First, Mary Johnson published Make Them Go Away and now we have Harriet McByde Johnson's much anticipated Too Late to Die Young. Read together these texts provide a powerful one two punch for the disability rights movement in an era which has seen the courts gut the Americans with Disability Act. Both authors have been champions and leaders of the disability rights movement and each are gifted writers.Harriet McBryde Johnson is a gifted story teller--although I wanted to savor the text and make it last I was too spoiled to do so. I read the book cover to cover the day I received it. Now, I am going back to re-read each and every chapter. Each story told resonates at some level regardless of the subject matter. What truly struck me the most was that my life is not so different, that I am not so unsual, and that the bigotry and discrimination I encounter on a daily basis is no different from what other disabled people face. I am not the only one that is subjected to unwanted attention and grossly inappropriate comments. I am not the only one that found Christopher Reeve comments about disability offensive. I am not the only one who is treated poorly when I travel on an airline. In short, discrimination against the disabled is rampant and it is heartening to know others are experiencing and fighting against this. To know that I have two gifted authors on the side of equal rights lets me not only feel better about myself a feel less alone but know the future, in spite of the courts, will be better than the past.
Required to read this book for a sociology project but I loved every sentence! Such a great read.
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