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Lift |  | Author: Kelly Corrigan
Publisher: Voice
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
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Seller: HPB-Outlet Ohio
Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 83132
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 96
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1401341241
Dewey Decimal Number: 128
EAN: 9781401341244
ASIN: 1401341241
Publication Date: March 2, 2010
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| Features:
| • | Kelly Corrigan best-selling author of The Middle Place. | | • | Sold 250,000 first printing. |
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| • | Hardcover - Lift | | • | Kindle Edition - Lift | | • | Audio CD - Lift | | • | Audible Audio Edition - Lift |
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Product Description
Author, Kelly Corrigan relates the crisis she experienced when doctors diagnosed her 4-month-old child with meningitis & uses this story to show how a person must go through a lot of turbulence before he or she gets the lift needed for a positive life experience. Kelly Corrigan follows up her huge bestseller THE MIDDLE PLACE with this brief inspirational essay which uses hang gliding, where fliers must seek out turbulence in order to achieve "lift," as a metaphor for life.
Structuring the book as a letter to her children, Corrigan relates some of the intense emotions and encounters with other parents. She & her husband experienced an anxious stay in a children's hospital, where they waited to see if their daughter would be diagnosed with terminal meningitis. Ultimately, Corrigan determines that suffering & strife are inevitable in life, but they can be overcome as long as we never allow fear of potential anguish to prevent us from continuing to seek joy & love.
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 It's a chapter not a book August 28, 2010
Carolyn (Orlando, Fl)
This is the first book that I've read that ends before it starts. Does she really think that her writing is so great that she can sell a chapter for the same price as a book? I hope this review stews at least one person from buying this book.
 A Mommy Diary July 29, 2010
Susan F. Anderson (New Jersey)
This is the first book I've read by this author. It was short and sweet and heartwarming in many ways. I am Mom to a special needs daughter so I could understand and relate to the depths of despair that she references during the difficult periods of her life. My biggest criticism is that she chose to inject her political views into the middle of an otherwise warm and soulful story. In my opinion, that was a big turn-off. I did enjoy this book but I do not have much interest in reading any of her other works.
 Beautiful July 26, 2010
K. Grand
An incredible book. It moved me. Everything about it was so perfect for me as the reader. So perfect.
 Lift July 16, 2010
GREAT... until it ends prematurly and abruptly. It cost way too much for so little content. Looking forward to THE MIDDLE PLACE and hoping it does not do the same thing.
 Ordinary People July 10, 2010
Sacramento Book Review (Sacramento, CA)
I thought this was going to be a book about falconry. Child-free myself, I'd never heard of Kelly Corrigan or her best-selling cancer and family memoir //The Middle Place//. But with a title like //Lift//, and "all things want to fly" as an epigraph, you can see my mistake. I'm sure I'd like Corrigan--we're both from Philly, and she even name-checks a girl from my high school--but how am I going to relate to someone who says "the most unthinkable loss would be never to have had a child"?
Corrigan's fans won't need a review to encourage them to buy this book. They love her already: how she's funny and down-to-earth and not afraid to love her family and children, even when it's scary. They'll love how //Lift// expands on the story of cousin Kathy and her son, Aaron, but they might regret that Greenie, Corrigan's charismatic Dad isn't onstage as much this time.
What I like best are the passages where Corrigan enumerates the small details (lip balm, leopard-print loafers) that define a person. There I get a sense of a writer more talented and complex than the "Self Help / Inspiration" niche she's marketed as.
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