Movement
Subtitle: a memoir of disability, cancer, and the Holocaust
By: William Roth.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780786437832
Subjects: Roth, William, -- 1942- -- Health; Tonsils -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography; Dystonia -- Patients -- United States -- Biography; Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "As William Roth was taking his first steps, his family were caught up in the Holocaust. At age eight, he had symptoms of dystonia. At age forty-seven, he was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsil. This, his memoir, is the story of three intertwined narratives and the miraculous success that one man carved from them"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Say "ahhh," march 1988; title: Escape from Vienna, 1938-1945; title: The cancer all-stars, March 1988; title: Ashes and dreams, 1938-1945; title: Can't help glowing, March 1988; title: My life of crime, 1945-1950; title: Studying the opposition, March 1988; title: The wonder years, 1950-1955; title: The killing details, March 1988; title: A hole in the head, 1955-1960; title: Three days to burn, March 1988; title: Yale, 1960-1961; title: Cancer, present tense, March 31, 1988; title: Sophomore drill, 1961-1962; title: Slow burn, April 1988; title: Biting the big apple, 1963-1964; title: What, me worry? spring 1988; title: Berkeley: the '60s; title: Warrior, August 1988; title: American in Paris, 1966-1967; title: Chemical warfare, autumn 1988-spring 1990; title: First person, political, 1967-1970; title: A radical reunion, spring 1989; title: A nice guy like me, 1970-1978; title: A pain in the neck, June 1989; title: Albany, 1978-1988; title: Dancing in the street, June 1989; title: After the war, 1989-1990; title: Press pause, 1990-2000; title: Return to dystonia, 2003-2007.