The Best Seat in the House : How I Woke Up One Tuesday and Was Paralyzed for Life
Author(s): Allen Rucker
One Tuesday afternoon Allen Rucker, Hollywood comedy writer and family man, wakes from a nap to find himself paralyzed from the waist down. Shocking? Yes. Unfair? Absolutely. Reality? Inescapably. Rucker is shaken up and angry, but soon realizes he's stuck in a wheelchair forever. He begins to reevaluate everything in his life, from the simplest bodily functions to the mysteries of the universe. Luckily, he's invited us along on the bumpy, poignant, and often hilarious road to recovery that leads him to completely redefine his life.
The Best Seat in the House is Rucker's unpretentious, unapologetic, refreshingly comic, and powerfully heartfelt paean to life and its fragility, and to the resilience and adaptability of a single, normal, very funny human being.
Review(s):
“hardly sentimental...[a] savvy contribution...ahead of the curve.”
“… [Rucker] examines his situation with humor and honesty.”
“Much funnier and more uplifting than it might initially seem.”
“Both funny and moving...an unpretentious an unapologetic account of learning to live with paralysis.”
“Allen Rucker describes his new life with honesty, accessibility, and impudence...very funny.”
“This valuable book is full of surprises....Frankly written, the human struggle is most touching.”
“Very moving, not scary. [Rucker] is a talented man.”
“Rucker’s established penchant for jaded humor, along with his willingness to indulge the reader’s curiosity, makes The Best Seat in the House...one of the most engaging disability memoirs to date....should be required reading for the disabled and able-bodied alike.”
ISBN: 9780060825294