Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn - ISBN: 9780143793786
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Paralysis, MS, and audacious life lessons learned from father to daughter.

Diving into Glass

A Memoir

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    5 March 2019

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Summary

Caro Llewellyn’s family was unconventional from the beginning. Her parents met in hospital, where her father, confined to an iron lung after contracting polio, seduced his nurse and married her.

Growing up, Caro watched her father embrace life, undaunted and ingenious in the face of his severe paralysis. From him, she learned courage; from her writer mother independence. She fell in love with literature and writers; when she was asked by Salman Rushdie to direct a festival in New York…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780143793786
ISBN-10:0143793780
Author:Caro Llewellyn
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Viking Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:5 March 2019
Weight:454g
Dimensions:232mm x 153mm x 29mm
About The Author

Caro Llewellyn

Caro Llewellyn is the author of three previous works of nonfiction. She is the former director of several large-scale literary festivals and cultural events. She has hosted writers from every corner of the globe, including a number of Nobel Prize winners, and presented events at the Sydney Opera House, London’s Southbank, the Louvre, and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Town Hall, 92Y and historic Cooper Union. Diving Into Glass is her first work of autobiography.

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