{"product_id":"its-not-yet-dark-a-memoir-isbn-9781328508270","title":"It's Not Yet Dark: A Memoir","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e“A fiercely eloquent testament to making the most out of every moment we’re given.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cem\u003ePeople Magazine, \u003c\/em\u003eBook of the Week\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 2008, Simon Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was given four years to live. In 2010, in a state of lung-function collapse, Simon knew with crystal clarity he was not ready to die. Against all prevailing medical opinion, he chose life.  Despite the loss of almost all motor function, thanks to miraculous technology, he continued to work, raise his five children, and write this astonishing memoir. \u003cem\u003eIt’s Not Yet Dark\u003c\/em\u003e is a journey into a life that, though brutally compromised, was lived more fully than most, revealing the potent power of love, of art, and of the human spirit. Written using an eye-gaze computer, \u003cem\u003ethis\u003c\/em\u003e is an unforgettable book about relationships and family, about what connects and separates us as people, and, ultimately, about what it means to be alive. | \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInternational Bestseller  A \u003cem\u003ePeople \u003c\/em\u003eBook of the Week  A Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Pick  A Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Best Biography of the Year  An iBooks Best Book of the Month\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAn Amazon Best Memoir of the Month\u003c\/strong\u003e   “A fiercely eloquent testament to making the most out of every moment we're given.”   —\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeople\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, Book of the Week\u003c\/strong\u003e   “Beautifully written. Utterly life-affirming.”   —\u003cstrong\u003eAlan Rickman\u003c\/strong\u003e     “A beautiful love story - in its essence that's what this is. Survival stories are not about surviving, they're inherently about what makes a survivor push through. A desire to remain in the light of all creation, even as a darkening is taking place. A darkening which happens to us all.”  —\u003cstrong\u003eColin Farrell\u003c\/strong\u003e   “[A] gripping, affecting, sometimes funny read by a natural-born storyteller with something to say about the weight and the value of a life...If you need a story of courage, of heart, of coming back for more, of love and struggle and the power of both, \u003cem\u003eIt's Not Yet Dark\u003c\/em\u003e could be the elusive thing you're after.”  —\u003cstrong\u003eJoseph O'Connor\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Less a memoir of dying than a memoir of refusing to die...Vibrant.\"  —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"In brief, often luminous vignettes, Fitzmaurice tells pieces of his story...Brave and honest, his memoir provides a fierce, sparkling constellation of small lights that gleam against the gathering dark.\"  —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Powerful and moving...The heart of this inspirational book is Fitzmaurice's perseverance ('They gave me my life and I wouldn’t give it up') and his unflagging belief 'in the power to take what life throws at you and slowly to come back, to take all you have and not be crushed by sadness and loss.'\"  —\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e   \"A fine and heartfelt memoir from an author hopeful in his determination to endure against the odds: 'What remains is desire.'\"  —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Darkly funny and emotional, Fitzmaurice’s story is as inspirational as memoirs get – he even wrote the entire book with an eye-gaze computer. This is a true story about family, health, and the true meaning of life that you won’t want to miss.\"  —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBookTrib\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"A fierce, tender, and compelling examination of what it means to live.\"  —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Brooklyn Bugle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Daringly, brutally poignant, \u003cem\u003eIt’s Not Yet Dark\u003c\/em\u003e is the closest thing to pure love that I have read since \u003cem\u003eThe Shack\u003c\/em\u003e and just as memorable...Like an Irish mist, \u003cem\u003eIt’s Not Yet Dark\u003c\/em\u003e unveils all pretense of living with an illness that kills daily, that can terminate life at any moment, leaving the brilliance and elegance of a writer at his best, peeling his life like an onion, living with presence and love at every opportunity. Thrillingly, achingly authentic prose that reveals an inner life of one human being with the courage to live fully every single moment of his life.  Compromised as it is, Simon Fitzmaurice’s life is a complete and miraculous act of loving life.\"  —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Review Broads\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cu\u003eSelect Irish Praise for \u003cem\u003eIt’s Not Yet Dark\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e    \u003cstrong\u003e#1 Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e      “Part memoir, part stark document of the way [Simon] and his family have dealt with motor neuron disease, and part fierce celebration of being alive, \u003cem\u003eIt's Not Yet Dark \u003c\/em\u003eis powerful, gripping and compelling.”  —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e     “Sparsely and beautifully written...the human spirit and will to live shines out of these pages...By the time you reach the end of this book, with tears of admiration, sadness and frustration in your eyes, the question is no longer why would you want to live...but how could you not.”  —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e     “The word 'inspirational' is over-used, but if ever a book deserved this epithet, this is it.”  —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSunday Independent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890252607717,"sku":"NP9781328508270","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781328508270.jpg?v=1730232868","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/its-not-yet-dark-a-memoir-isbn-9781328508270","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}