It's Not Yet Dark: A Memoir

It's Not Yet Dark: A Memoir

<DIV><B>“Beautifully written. Utterly life-affirming.”</B><BR />  —<B>Alan Rickman</B><BR /><BR /><B>A luminous memoir in the tradition of <I>The Diving Bell and the Butterfly</I> and a #1 bestseller upon its initial release in Ireland, a young filmmaker gives us “a story of courage, of heart, of coming back for more, of love and struggle and the power of both” (Joseph O'Connor).</B><BR /><BR /> In 2008, Simon Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with ALS, or 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 that now was not his time to die. Against all prevailing medical opinion, he chose to ventilate in order to stay alive.<BR />  <BR /> In <I>It’s Not Yet Dark,</I> the young filmmaker, a husband and father of five small children, draws us deeply into his inner world. Told in simply expressed and beautifully stark prose, it is an astonishing journey into a life that, though brutally compromised, is lived more fully than most, revealing at its core the potent power love has to carry us through the days.<BR />  <BR /> Written using an eye-gaze computer, <I>It's Not Yet Dark</I> 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.</DIV>