Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying - Softcover

Lindquist, Ulla-Carin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143038672 ISBN 13: 9780143038672

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2007

Synopsis

A late newscaster whose final years were marked by her struggle with Lou Gehrig's disease recounts her efforts to document and bring meaning to her life as a way of preparing herself and her family for her death. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"I have never read anything like it—its quietness, its courage, its lucidity; I found it searing, beautiful, terrifying, and at the same time, affirming—and reassuring."
—Dr. Oliver Sacks, author of Awakenings

About the Author:

Ulla-Carin Lindquist was one of the most well-known and popular newscasters on Swedish television (STV). She died in 2004.
Margaret Myers is a musician and musicologist, born in South Africa, and educated in England..

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0143038672
• ISBN 13: 9780143038672
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208