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Summary: A Charming Memoir--A Little Off the Trodden Road
Review: Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award winning author of Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered This is not a traditionally-constructed memoir. This man of medicine and art, Sir Rupert A.L. Perrin, MD, and his associate, Kristin J. Johnson, built his reminisces around art, the abiding force in Perrin's life. In a near-Faulknerian fashion, the two wove his story together the way a man who has lived life to its fullest might do if he were sitting around a table with young friends. With so many biographies available today, it may feel foolish to choose one by a person who, though titled, is relatively unknown in many circles. Please don't be fooled. That is part of this book's charm. Here we have a man whose life's work has been instrumental in the quest for a cure for AIDS, whose roots in Jamaica have permeated many parts of the world, who has experienced celebrity--of his own and of those whose elbows he has rubbed. This alone is a kind of inspiration. How full our lives can be, how full they can seem to us, if we will only take a moment to look and be grateful.
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(Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel, This is the Place, has won eight awards. Her newly released Harkening, a collection of stories, has won three. Her practical and detailed how-to book on promotion, THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER: HOW TO DO WHAT YOU'RE PUBLISHER WON'T, will be released in August,2004.)
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