The Cost of Hope: A Memoir
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品牌: Amanda Bennett
基本信息出版社:Random House (2012年6月5日)精装:240页正文语种:英语ISBN:140006984X条形码:9781400069842商品重量:481 gASIN:140006984X您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介From Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda Bennett comes a moving, eye-opening, and beautifully written memoir—a love story of two unusual people, their complex marriage and deep devotion, and finally, Bennett’s quest to save her husband’s life.
WhenWall Street Journalreporter Amanda Bennett meets the eccentric, infuriating, yet somehow irresistible Terence Bryan Foley while on assignment in China, the last thing she expects is to marry him. They are so different—classic and bohemian, bow ties and batik, quirky and sensible. But Terence is persistent. “You are going to be somebody,” he tells her. “You’re going to need somebody to take care of you.” Though initially as combative as their courtship, their marriage brings with it stormy passion, deep love and respect, two beloved children, and a life together over two decades. Then comes illness, and the fight to win a longer life for Terence.
The Cost of Hopechronicles the extraordinary measures Amanda and Terence take to preserve not only Terence’s life but also the life of their family. After his death, Bennett uses her skills as a veteran investigative reporter to determine the cost of their mission of hope. What she discovers raises important questions many people face, and vital issues about the intricacies of America’s healthcare system.
Rich in humor, insight, and candor,The Cost of Hopeis an unforgettable memoir, an inspiring personal story that sheds light on one of the most important turning points in life.媒体推荐Advance praise forThe Cost of Hope
“Here is a book about marriage, love, and hope when there would seem to be no reason to hope. Amanda Bennett describes her lively, complex, never-dull life with her husband with a directness that is both understated and heartbreaking, and in the context of his illness and treatment she asks the unanswerable: What are the human and economic costs of providing medical treatment when the outcome is uncertain? Bennett writes beautifully about love and loss, and how they illuminate one another. Long after one reads it,The Cost of Hopestays in one’s heart and mind.”—Kay Redfield Jamison, author ofAn Unquiet MindandNothing Was the Same
“A beautiful, brave, funny, vexing, and tender love story—a fight against death to save a man who was larger than life . . . Hope turns out to be priceless, and enduring.”—Dominique Browning, author ofSlow Love
“No one who reads this book will ever forget it. It is the moving, funny, heartbreaking, sober, inspiring, important story of a man and a woman energized to their limits by their stormy high-pitched love for each other. Interwoven throughout is a brilliant piece of reporting about the costs and agonies of the American healthcare system. Amanda Bennett has created, in beautifully crafted prose, something truly exquisite—and unique.”—Jim Lehrer
“InThe Cost of Hope,Amanda Bennett powerfully combines her own funny, touching love story with an increasingly frantic dance with American healthcare, raising urgent questions all of us need answered about the delivery and cost of medical care in our country. This is an extraordinary, memorable look inside the life of a loving family facing a terrible diagnosis.”—Judy Woodruff
“An enlightening and touching memoir,The Cost of Hopeis at once a celebration of Amanda Bennett’s life with her husband before and during his battle with cancer and a clear-eyed look at end-of-life decision-making.”—Melissa Fay Greene, author ofPraying for SheetrockandNo Biking in the House without a Helmet
