A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain

by Christina Crosby

Book Overview

A woman's fight to reclaim her body after a paralysis-inducing cycling accident

In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479833533
• ISBN13: 9781479833535
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"