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Sun Farmer The Story of a Shocking Accident, A Medical Miracle and a Family's Life and Death Decision

McCarthy, Michael
Innbundet / 2007 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781566637008
Publisert
2007-04-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Ivan R Dee, Inc
Vekt
413 gr
Høyde
231 mm
Bredde
150 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
McCarthy, Michael

Om bidragsyterne

Michael McCarthy reported and edited for the Wall Street Journal for twenty-one years before he recently left to pursue educational and other writing interests. He was born and grew up in St. Louis and is now studying at DePaul University in Chicago.

Sun Farmer The Story of a Shocking Accident, A Medical Miracle and a Family's Life and Death Decision

McCarthy, Michael
Innbundet / 2007 / Engelsk
McCarthy, Michael
Innbundet / 2007 / Engelsk
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McCarthy provides edge-of-the-seat drama…he builds the portrayal of farmers as noble tillers of the soil.

- Stephen J. Lyons, Stephen J. Lyons, Chicago Tribune

McCarthy writes sympathetically not only about Fink's plight...but also about Fink's wife...left to make the ultimate gut-wrenching choice.

Chicago Tribune

In The Sun Farmer, journalist Michael McCarthy relates the tragically captivating story of one man's near-death experience and the medical advancement that saved his life. While working on his farm one day, Ted Fink was severely burned all over his body in a tractor accident. As he lay in a coma for six months, his wife struggled with the decision to attempt experimental procedures or let Ted die. Meanwhile, an ambitious Greek chemist at MIT works on the long-shot development of artificial skin, that could save Ted's life. This is a gripping account of struggle and triumph and the vital but dangerous life of Midwestern farmers.

Se alle

The story of the Finks is compelling; Ted's bravery and Rhoda's faith and constancy are lessons to us all.

- Tom Cooper, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The book is genuine.

- Rikki Knutti, Saukvalley.Com

A moving survey any general-interest lending library will want.

Midwest Book Review

A compelling literary ride.

Farm Journal

A tribute to human endurance. This...is a story of dogged courage in the face of terrible odds.

- Dwight W. Hoover, Author of A Good Day's Work,

This fascinating account is well researched and smoothly written....McCarthy's intelligent probing of extremity allows us to see advances of medical care, vulnerability in humans, and, as well, their deep strengths.

- Albert Howard Carter III, Author Of First Cut: A Season In The Human Anatomy Lab,

A gripping tale of courage, perseverance, and devotion as well as the astounding development of an artificial skin that offers hope to all burn victims.

- R. Douglas Hurt, Author of American Farm,

Ted Fink's wife heard the explosion from the living room, where she sat reading the day's mail and sipping iced tea. She ran to the front door and saw a massive curling fireball. Her husband was in the flames, she was certain. She called 911, asking for help at the farm.... So begins Michael McCarthy's extraordinary portrayal of a real-life nightmare: an Illinois corn farmer so badly burned in a tractor accident that only his feet, protected by his new steel-toe boots, escaped the flames. While he lay unconscious, his wife Rhoda, with no way of knowing how disabled or disfigured he would emerge from multiple surgeries, had to decide whether to allow doctors to enshroud him in a cocoon of artificial skin, or let him die. This rare and intimate story carries the reader through the Finks' agonizing experience as Ted is sedated into a coma for six months while Rhoda is left alone to contemplate this life-or-death decision. Even the possibility of saving Ted depends upon the product of laboratories at MIT, where Mr. McCarthy takes the reader to describe the long-shot development of the world's first artificial skin and the ambitious Greek chemist who refused to let his dream of inventing it die. Because this new skin enables people to survive traumas as never before, it also forces hard choices with unpredictable consequences on ordinary people. To gather scenes that are by turns wrenching, beautiful, and searing, Mr. McCarthy, who met the Finks while working on their story for the Wall Street Journal, talked with them at length over two years at their farm. His heartfelt narrative of tragedy and redemption weaves together a saga of six generations of Midwestern farmers while revealing the dark side of a nostalgic occupation bedeviled by accident and death. For images and additional information visit the author's website at: http://thesunfarmer.com
Les mer
Presents a personal account of courage and survival in the face of tragedy. This book features a tale of ordinary men and women placed in an extraordinary real-life nightmare. It involves a life-and-death decision, a long-shot development of the world's first artificial skin, and a horribly burned victim restored to life.
Les mer

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McCarthy provides edge-of-the-seat drama…he builds the portrayal of farmers as noble tillers of the soil.

- Stephen J. Lyons, Stephen J. Lyons, Chicago Tribune

McCarthy writes sympathetically not only about Fink's plight...but also about Fink's wife...left to make the ultimate gut-wrenching choice.

Chicago Tribune

In The Sun Farmer, journalist Michael McCarthy relates the tragically captivating story of one man's near-death experience and the medical advancement that saved his life. While working on his farm one day, Ted Fink was severely burned all over his body in a tractor accident. As he lay in a coma for six months, his wife struggled with the decision to attempt experimental procedures or let Ted die. Meanwhile, an ambitious Greek chemist at MIT works on the long-shot development of artificial skin, that could save Ted's life. This is a gripping account of struggle and triumph and the vital but dangerous life of Midwestern farmers.

Se alle

The story of the Finks is compelling; Ted's bravery and Rhoda's faith and constancy are lessons to us all.

- Tom Cooper, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The book is genuine.

- Rikki Knutti, Saukvalley.Com

A moving survey any general-interest lending library will want.

Midwest Book Review

A compelling literary ride.

Farm Journal

A tribute to human endurance. This...is a story of dogged courage in the face of terrible odds.

- Dwight W. Hoover, Author of A Good Day's Work,

This fascinating account is well researched and smoothly written....McCarthy's intelligent probing of extremity allows us to see advances of medical care, vulnerability in humans, and, as well, their deep strengths.

- Albert Howard Carter III, Author Of First Cut: A Season In The Human Anatomy Lab,

A gripping tale of courage, perseverance, and devotion as well as the astounding development of an artificial skin that offers hope to all burn victims.

- R. Douglas Hurt, Author of American Farm,

Ted Fink's wife heard the explosion from the living room, where she sat reading the day's mail and sipping iced tea. She ran to the front door and saw a massive curling fireball. Her husband was in the flames, she was certain. She called 911, asking for help at the farm.... So begins Michael McCarthy's extraordinary portrayal of a real-life nightmare: an Illinois corn farmer so badly burned in a tractor accident that only his feet, protected by his new steel-toe boots, escaped the flames. While he lay unconscious, his wife Rhoda, with no way of knowing how disabled or disfigured he would emerge from multiple surgeries, had to decide whether to allow doctors to enshroud him in a cocoon of artificial skin, or let him die. This rare and intimate story carries the reader through the Finks' agonizing experience as Ted is sedated into a coma for six months while Rhoda is left alone to contemplate this life-or-death decision. Even the possibility of saving Ted depends upon the product of laboratories at MIT, where Mr. McCarthy takes the reader to describe the long-shot development of the world's first artificial skin and the ambitious Greek chemist who refused to let his dream of inventing it die. Because this new skin enables people to survive traumas as never before, it also forces hard choices with unpredictable consequences on ordinary people. To gather scenes that are by turns wrenching, beautiful, and searing, Mr. McCarthy, who met the Finks while working on their story for the Wall Street Journal, talked with them at length over two years at their farm. His heartfelt narrative of tragedy and redemption weaves together a saga of six generations of Midwestern farmers while revealing the dark side of a nostalgic occupation bedeviled by accident and death. For images and additional information visit the author's website at: http://thesunfarmer.com
Les mer
Presents a personal account of courage and survival in the face of tragedy. This book features a tale of ordinary men and women placed in an extraordinary real-life nightmare. It involves a life-and-death decision, a long-shot development of the world's first artificial skin, and a horribly burned victim restored to life.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781566637008
Publisert
2007-04-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Ivan R Dee, Inc
Vekt
413 gr
Høyde
231 mm
Bredde
150 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
McCarthy, Michael

Om bidragsyterne

Michael McCarthy reported and edited for the Wall Street Journal for twenty-one years before he recently left to pursue educational and other writing interests. He was born and grew up in St. Louis and is now studying at DePaul University in Chicago.

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