Synopsis Biographical stories about the professional and personal life of a reporter who at age 19 became a paraplegic after a car accident. The author writes of his experiences as a reporter in the Middle East, his attempts to become the first journalist to report from space, and the horrors of being wheelchair-bound on the inaccessible New York City subway system.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1996-07-01 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 18.4 oz |
Publisher's Note Now in trade paperback, following a highly successful hardcover run, the riveting, in-your-face memoir by John Hockenberry, the NPR veteran and popular correspondent for ABC News whose penchant for hot spots and explosive situations has catapulted him into the spotlight--and into our public conscience. "I cried till I laughed".--Tom Miller, Washington Post Book World.
Industry Reviews "In his full-throated, driving and highly affecting book, John Hockenberry tells us--even forces us--to treat him no differently than others, and to acknowledge that disability is mostly in the eye of the beholder...Moving Violations could, infact, be described as an Invisible Man for the disabled...an encouraging [book], which encourages in precisely the way that Thoreau encourges: by being cranky, unsparing and ready to settle for no answers that do not ask the most of us." New York Times Book Review - Pico Iyer (07/02/1995)
"Marvelous ...defieant, funny, life-affirming and full of wisdom ...Hockenberry hates being called brave, but I think he's a hero." Paul Theroux
"John Hockenberry does more adventure journalism from his wheelchair than most reporters do in their wildest daydreams." Peter Arnett
"His accounts are by turns poignant and funny, so much so that Moving Violations is that rare book of which it may truly be said: I cried till I laughed." Washington Post Book World - Tom Miller (07/30/1995)
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