Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience - Softcover

Gonzales, Laurence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393346633 ISBN 13: 9780393346633

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013

Synopsis

You have survived the crisis―trauma, disease, accident, or war―now how do you get your life back?

The shark attacked while she was snorkeling, tearing through Micki Glenn’s breast and shredding her right arm. Her husband, a surgeon, saved her life on the spot, but when she was safely home she couldn’t just go on with her life. She had entered an even more profound survival journey: the aftermath.

The survival experience changes everything because it invalidates all your previous adaptations, and the old rules don’t apply. In some cases survivors suffer more in the aftermath than they did during the actual crisis. In all cases, they have to work hard to reinvent themselves. Drawing on gripping cases across a wide range of life-threatening experiences, Laurence Gonzales fashions a compelling argument about fear, courage, and the adaptability of the human spirit. Micki Glenn was later moved to say: “I don’t regret that this happened to me. [It] has been . . . probably the single most positive experience I’ve ever had.”

About this title

About the Author:

Laurence Gonzales is the author of Surviving Survival, Flight 232, and the bestseller Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why. He has won two National Magazine Awards and is a scholar at the Sante Fe Institute. He divides his time between Evanston, Illinois, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Review:

“Excellent . . . an education for those wishing to be of use in a stressful, often frightening world.”
- Kirkus Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0393346633
• ISBN 13: 9780393346633
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272