A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir

by Sandra Gail Lambert

Book Overview

After contracting polio as a child, Sandra Gail Lambert progressed from braces and crutches to a manual wheelchair to a power wheelchair--but loneliness has remained a constant, from the wild claustrophobia of a child in body casts to just yesterday, trapped at home, gasping from pain. A Certain Loneliness is a meditative and engaging memoir-in-essays that explores the intersection of disability, queerness, and female desire with frankness and humor.

Lambert presents the adventures of flourishing within a world of uncertain tomorrows: kayaking alone through swamps with alligators; negotiating planes, trains, and ski lifts; scoring free drugs from dangerous men; getting trapped in a too-deep snow drift without crutches. A Certain Loneliness is literature of the body, palpable and present, in which Lambert's lifelong struggle with isolation and independence--complete with tiresome frustrations, slapstick moments, and grand triumphs--are wound up in the long history of humanity's relationship to the natural world.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149620719X
• ISBN13: 9781496207197
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.7" x 8.7"