He comes across as over-bearing and arrogant. All of it seemed out-of-proportion to me. She portrays him as a larger than life genius, and he clearly was extremely bright and ambitious and driven. Amanda Bennett was obviously deeply in love with her husband, but her portrait of him makes him seem like a Type A jerk to me. I had problems with most of this, to be honest. Scattered throughout is evidence that the book started out as two magazine articles about how much money that battle with cancer cost. It's a portrait of a man, Terence Foley, and of the author's relationship with and marriage to him, and it's the story of his battle with cancer. The subtitle is "The Story of a Marriage, a Family, and the Quest for Life." In the blurbs, Judy Woodruff is quoted: "This extraordinary, memorable look inside the life of a loving family facing a terrible diagnosis raises urgent questions all of us need answered about the delivery and cost of medical care in our country." This book was given to me by my brother months ago, and now that I've read it I'll be curious to find out what he took from it, because I had a hard time with it. Randy_byers Labeled "A Memoir" on the jacket, this book is actually trying to do a lot of different things.
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