Waist High in the World (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Nancy Mairs
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Principal Characters: Nancy Mairs
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Health and medicine
- Subjects: Perception, Writing, Spiritual life or spirituality, Reality, Cancer, Depression, mental, Home, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Multiple sclerosis, Attitude
Diagnosed in 1972 when she was a twenty-nine-year-old wife, mother, and writer, Nancy Mairs faced a mysterious, incurable, degenerative neurological disease. Over the years, she became more and more physically limited, until in 1992 she became wheelchair- bound.
In her earlier nonfiction books—Plaintext: Deciphering a Woman’s Life (1986), Remembering the Bone House: An Erotics of Place and Space (1989), Carnal Acts (1990), Ordinary Time: Cycles of Marriage, Faith, and Renewal (1993), and Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer (1994),...
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