Book Details
Title: Beyond the Red Door
Author: Janet Shaw
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Year: 2004
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 282
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 1-74114-319-5
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact with shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners as pictured. Some creasing in places and superficial scuffing.
The page profiles (seen when book is closed) are clean, with some yellowing.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact. Pages yellowed, more prominently at the margins.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"'Colours would always be vivid and beautiful in my mind, even clearer than before. I had thirty-three years of visual memory and I knew I wouldn't forget how to see. My other senses told me about the world, and my third eye gave me the pictures.'
Janet Shaw was adopted as a baby. At thirteen months, she was diagnosed with having an inherited condition - a malignant cancer called retinoblastoma - and she had one eye removed. With the support of her adoptive parents, Janet learned to negotiate the world with limited vision in her remaining eye, refusing to stay behind the red door of the blind school, determined to be as ordinary as possible.
In this moving account of a young woman's journey towards self-acceptance, Janet Shaw writes of her struggle to come to terms with the genetic time bomb she was handed at birth. When the desire to find out the identity of her natural parents becomes overwhelming, she sets out to find them, knowing that she could face soul-destroying rejection.
Janet's story, told with honesty and insight, is inspirational. Time and again her courage is tested but her indomitable spirit triumphs when she succeeds in her quest to become a world-class athlete, winning four medals at the 2002 World Disabled Cycling Championship. She has her sights set on Athens 2004 Paralympics where she is expected to take gold."
Book Details
Title: Beyond the Red Door
Author: Janet Shaw
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Year: 2004
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 282
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 1-74114-319-5
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact with shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners as pictured. Some creasing in places and superficial scuffing.
The page profiles (seen when book is closed) are clean, with some yellowing.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact. Pages yellowed, more prominently at the margins.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"'Colours would always be vivid and beautiful in my mind, even clearer than before. I had thirty-three years of visual memory and I knew I wouldn't forget how to see. My other senses told me about the world, and my third eye gave me the pictures.'
Janet Shaw was adopted as a baby. At thirteen months, she was diagnosed with having an inherited condition - a malignant cancer called retinoblastoma - and she had one eye removed. With the support of her adoptive parents, Janet learned to negotiate the world with limited vision in her remaining eye, refusing to stay behind the red door of the blind school, determined to be as ordinary as possible.
In this moving account of a young woman's journey towards self-acceptance, Janet Shaw writes of her struggle to come to terms with the genetic time bomb she was handed at birth. When the desire to find out the identity of her natural parents becomes overwhelming, she sets out to find them, knowing that she could face soul-destroying rejection.
Janet's story, told with honesty and insight, is inspirational. Time and again her courage is tested but her indomitable spirit triumphs when she succeeds in her quest to become a world-class athlete, winning four medals at the 2002 World Disabled Cycling Championship. She has her sights set on Athens 2004 Paralympics where she is expected to take gold."
