Terry Trueman
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- Födelsedag
- 1947-12-15
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA (birth)
Spokane, Washington, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA - Utbildning
- University of Washington (BA/Creative Writing)
Eastern Washington University (MS Applied Psychology & MFA Creative Writing) - Yrken
- novelist
poet
teacher - Organisationer
- The Great Stories Club
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Inside Out was named a 2005 IRA Young Adults' Choice. 2001 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award for Stuck in Neutral. IRA/CBC Young Adults’ Choice award for Cruise Control. New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.
- Agent
- Balkin Buddies, Catherine Balkin (718)-857-7805
- Kort biografi
- Terry Trueman was born on December 15, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama, but grew up in Seattle. He attended the University of Washington, where he received his B.A. in creative writing. He also has an M.S. in applied psychology and an M.F.A. in creative writing, both from Eastern Washington University. The father of two sons, Henry and Jesse, Terry Trueman makes his home in Spokane, Washington, where he has lived since 1974. Trueman's hobbies include his Sea Ray boat and his 1976 Corvette Stingray, and his Corvette, firy red! One of his heroes is poet Charles Bukowski. He considers Terry Davis and Chris Crutcher two invaluable mentors.
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This book was stunning. The narrator is Shawn, who has no muscle control - so he can't walk, talk, feed himself, or do much besides sit in his chair and think. Nobody knows him - they don't even know he can think and understand everything around him. Not only that, he has the amazing ability to remember absolutely everything he's ever seen or heard. But everyone, including his parents and brother and sister, believe that fourteen year old Shawn has the mental capacity of a three month old baby. They love him, but they don't really know him. He can't tell him that the chronic seizures that are a part of his condition aren't painful like they appear - they are blissful, and during them he can leave his body like in a dream and do all the things he can't usually do. Since they don't know any of that, his family thinks he is suffering from painful seizures and a torturous existence. It seems that his dad wants to put him out of his misery.… (mer)
The Disability Day of Mourning is every year on March first. It mourns disabled people who have been murdered by their families.
https://disability-memorial.org/
(groans in frustration) This book was super dark and edgy to me when I first read it when I was ten. I was so freaked out and didn't speak to my dad for days. Twenty years later, with a really good physical therapist and also a major advocate in my mom, people act really surprised when I tell them I have the same thing Shawn does, only much milder. I walk unassisted, speak, see, hear and sing clearly. Still, I was delighted to read a fiction book with someone who knew how to spell my condition correctly. So, twenty years later, I reread this as an e-book. The author and people who like this book desperately need to start following disabled people on Twitter. They might learn that we're people, and we deserve to be here. This book is ableist trash told in a cliche and ableist way. I shivered a little when I read that the able-bodied author has a son with palsy. I hope the kid is okay.… (mer)
https://disability-memorial.org/
(groans in frustration) This book was super dark and edgy to me when I first read it when I was ten. I was so freaked out and didn't speak to my dad for days. Twenty years later, with a really good physical therapist and also a major advocate in my mom, people act really surprised when I tell them I have the same thing Shawn does, only much milder. I walk unassisted, speak, see, hear and sing clearly. Still, I was delighted to read a fiction book with someone who knew how to spell my condition correctly. So, twenty years later, I reread this as an e-book. The author and people who like this book desperately need to start following disabled people on Twitter. They might learn that we're people, and we deserve to be here. This book is ableist trash told in a cliche and ableist way. I shivered a little when I read that the able-bodied author has a son with palsy. I hope the kid is okay.… (mer)
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iszevthere | 86 andra recensioner | Jun 25, 2022 |
iszevthere | 86 andra recensioner | Jun 25, 2022 | Teen fiction; themes: Cerebral Palsy, social issues, ethics of euthanasia. This is kind of like one of those movies where nothing goes right and at the end (and even throughout the middle) you feel terrible. It's a very quick read (should take under 2 hours to finish) and a page turner; it also deals with some pretty heavy issues but it does make a valid point: you can't make assumptions about people just based on their appearances.
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