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The Acorn People / Ron Jones (Summer camp experiences of five handicapped children are told in diary form by their camp counselor.)
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Black Bird Fly Away: Disabled in an Able-Bodied World / Hugh Gregory Gallagher ; foreword by Geoffrey C. Ward. (polio)
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The Body Silent / Robert F. Murphy. (Quadriplegic)
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Born of the Fourth of July / Ron Kovic (experiences of a soldier in Vietnam who was wounded)
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Frida, a Biography of Frida Kahlo / by Hayden Herrera. ( In an accident when she was eighteen, Frida's spine was fractured, her pelvis crushed, and one foot broken. After that, she lived with physical impairments which caused her considerable pain, constant threat of illness, and inability to have children.)
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How It Feels to Live with a Physical Disability / Jill Krementz.
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In Love With Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery / Wilfrid Sheed. (polio, depression)
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A Leg to Stand On / Oliver Sacks. (This book is the story of Dr. Sacks himself, after he suffered a severe knee injury. He was chased off a cliff, by a bull. He tells how his immobilized leg became an alien thing that did not seem to belong to him. He suffered tremendous difficulties regaining the use of his leg. The doctors and nurses were l

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Waiting for "Barney" (Mordecai Richler's version)

 (Originally published on The Rover, Montreal's online arts magazine, as "Mordecai's Women," %E2%80%99s-women/)

The first novel by Mordecai Richler I read was Son of a Smaller Hero in the late '70s. I was a McGill undergrad in an intro to CanLit class taught by a Caribbean member of the professoriate, the punchline to the course being: there's no such thing as Canadian literature because lit-rah-chure is universal, don't you know?! Though set in the same Mile End district as later works Duddy Kravitz and St. Urbain's Horseman, Son of is worlds away in sensibility — dark, angry, and bitter, unleavened by any of the renowned Richler ribaldry.

I'm pretty sure I acquired St. Urbain, Joshua Then And Now, and Solomon Gursky was Here through the Book-of-the-Month Club (something you won't often find a literary writer admitting), in the late ‘70s or early ‘80s. And while Gursky is, by some accounts, supposedly Richler's masterpiece, I had to force myself through while the other two I read with pleasure, and more than was a Montreal I could still see evidence of, if only in broad strokes. Sort of like those chalk outlines left over at crime scenes. It wasn't my Montreal but, in fact, my par