This Is the Child

by Terry Pringle

Book Overview

From the original publisher, Alfred A. Knopf...In this extraordinary chronicle, Terry Pringle, telling of his four-year-old son's battle with leukemia, so fully captures this "ordinary" child's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394529219
• ISBN13: 9780394529219
• Release Date: April 1983
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Get the tissues ready!!

I read this book in 1 day because I could not put it down! From the 1st sentence, the author captivated me and made me feel part of his family through the end. The story is heart-warming and heart-wrenching at the same time. It is extremely well-written and shows the family with all of their flaws as well as their great strengths. I could not stop crying while reading this book and recommend it as long as you are prepared to leave a piece of your heart with the author and his family.

Pringle captivates with a smile

He enjoyed his "Any-M's," those miniature candy-coated chocolates which refuse to melt in your hands. He laughed with his brother and parents, often dressing up as a cowboy before galloping around the house, or giving mock-interviews to his dad's tape recorder. He smiled, when smiles were at a premium. Eric Pringle was a young boy battling leukemia, and spinal taps weren't as much fun as Star Wars figures--but he smiled anyway. Terry Pringle's THIS IS THE CHILD is Eric's story, revealed through his father's emotional exploration of a tight Texas family. From a rattlesnake coiled in the dining room of a new house to countless I-Spy games during countless journeys to countless doctors in Houston, "E" takes it all in stride. Here, as in subsequent novels THE PREACHER'S BOY and A FINE TIME TO LEAVE ME, Pringle is adept at depicting the minutiae of family life--the television shows (and everything else) that kids bicker over; the kids (and everything else) that adults bicker over. He i