Reviews for A Nearly Normal Life: A Memoir

The average rating for A Nearly Normal Life: A Memoir based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-05-09 00:00:00 Forest Neff Charles Mee offers a compelling look at the plague of the 1950s- polio- while discussing Americana, communism, popularity and other social graces and foibles. Although today's literary market is glutted with memoir, Mee's book stands out because his hopefulness is laced with cynism, and the life and recovery he depicts don't beg pity. He wrote, he said, simply to seek understanding and discovery. The memoirs I like to read these days offer a similar juxtaposition of horror and relief, comedy and tragedy. This book has it all.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-07-30 00:00:00 Nick Henny This is a book about the author's life after being struck by a debilitating case of polio at the age of 14. Some passages are moving, but it is not consistently engaging. I did learn a good deal about polio from reading the book.