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Title: Fully Alive
Subtitle: Discovering What Matters Most
Author: Timothy Shriver
Narrator: David Drummond
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-20-15
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 26 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
At a time when we are all more rudderless than ever, we look for the very best teachers and mentors to guide us. InFully Alive, an unusual and gripping memoir, Timothy Shriver shows how his teachers have been the world's most forgotten minority: people with intellectual disabilities. In these pages we meet the individuals who helped him come of age and find a deeper and more meaningful way to see the world. Shriver's journey begins close to home, where the quiet legacy of his aunt Rosemary, a Kennedy whose intellectual disability kept her far from the limelight, inspired his family to devote their careers to helping the most vulnerable. He plays alongside the children of Camp Shriver, his mother's revolutionary project, which provided a space for children with intellectual disabilities to play, and years later he gains invaluable wisdom from the incredible athletes he befriends as chairman of the organization it inspired, Special Olympics. Fully Alive is both a moving personal journey and a meditation on some of the greatest wisdom and the greatest contradictions of our society. Is disability to be feared or welcomed, pitied or purged? Shriver argues that we all have different abilities and challenges we should embrace. We see how those who appear powerless have turned this seeming shortcoming into a power of their own, and we learn that we are all totally vulnerable and valuable at the same time.
Critic Reviews:
"Sincere, profound and deeply satisfying." (
Kirkus Starred Review)