The Bone Bridge: A Brother's Story
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (681 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1942267045 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Benz’s story is compulsively readable. “The Bone Bridge: A Brother’s Story by Yarrott Benz is a book that deserves a large and appreciative audience for the simple reason that it is the best memoir written in recent years, one that hits the reader like a punch to the gut and leaves him, in turns, devastated, inspired, traumatized, and enlightened by Benz’s brother Charley’s story and his own… The chapters involving the brother’s long march to death and the slow loss of his heartbeat are among the best ever committed to print… The Bone Bridge is not an easy book to read, but it is of a quality and a resonating truth that it demands to be read and shared and discussed and taught.”—Vinton Rafe McCabe, The New York Journal of Books“The Bone Bridge is so clearly written, involving and human that it achieves the same power as Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther, Borrowed Time
Vinton Rafe McCabe said A Blistering, Moving, Magnificent Memoir. In a memoir that echoes the myth of Castor and Pollux in which one twin was mortal, the other immortal, Yarrott Benz's memoir tells the story of himself and his brother, Charley, who suffered from a blood disease for which Yarrott's blood was the sole treatment. Although brothers with diametric differences in age, in physical form, emotional structure and sexual nature, the two, remarkably, had the blood of identical twins. Thus the two are locked into what becomes a shared disease-each undergoing seven years of tortuous treatments. This is a remarkable book and Benz is a writer of rare power and intense insight into . beautiful prose, his eye for detail (he is a katy rinehart I raced through Yarrott Benz's unforgettable memoir in one obsessed 24-hour period, even reading it at stop signs and in parking lots, such was its hold on me. It is on one level a family chronicle, the tragic story of two brothers bound together by a rare medical condition--one desperately ill, the other faced as a teenager with the sole responsibility of keeping him alive. But The Bone Bridge is also so much more: a deeply moving exploration of family life in the American South at a time of enormous social upheaval, of personal and sexual identity, and of artistic vision. In less skillful hands, this multi-layered s. Suffice it to say that this is a painfully beautiful story of love and life Thomas J. Fennell This memoir hit with me with the force of a major tsunami. I have just finished it I could not put it down and I continue to reel in the wake of that tsunami. I shall return to write my "review" after I have stopping spinning. Suffice it to say that this is a painfully beautiful story of love and lifelife on life's terms. I cannot recommend it enough to anyoneI recommend it summa cum laude and without any reservation whatsoever. Thank you, Yarrott, for being courageous enough to share "A Brother's Story" with the world.
Having taught for many years in New York City and in Los Angeles, he now lives on a farm outside Lexington, Kentucky. Artist, memoirist, and essayist Yarrott Benz has written about architecture’s seminal role in art history and the psychology of visual trends.
We all wonder if we would do the right thing if called upon … even if it meant risking our own lives and sense of self. Despite painful and violent conflicts, Yarrott must bear the full responsibility of keeping his brother alive. This is the harrowing account of teenage brothers, as different as night and day, trapped together in a dramatic medical dilemma—a modern miracle and a modern nightmare. In The Bone Bridge: A Brother’s Story, author Yarrott Benz is forced to deal with extraordinary self-sacrifice. The only case like it in history, the true story unfolds over thirteen years as the t