It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
- ISBN-10
- 1557283370
- ISBN-13
- 9781557283375
- Series
- It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography / General
- Pages
- 237
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
- Author
- Carl Judson Launius
Description
""God @#?!, I loved football." Thus begins the saga of a small-town southern boy whose life is altered irreparably by the All-American sport of high-school football. Following the injury that leaves him paralyzed from the neck down, Carl Launius learns, with a fierce finality, that nothing will ever be the same again." "In search of a world outside the confines of a wheelchair, Launius turns to Freud, Dostoyevsky, Eliot, college, writing, booze, sex, and drugs - on his way to becoming a "radical degenerate poet."" "He haphazardly juggles higher education with attendant care, first love, substance abuse, portable ramps, and "too-full-of-beer" urine bags, bobbing up and down physically and emotionally from the Arkansas Ozarks to Illinois to UC-Davis and back again to Little Rock." "Whether slung like a feedsack over the shoulder of a friend, dumped in the floorboard of a van astride a railroad track, or dead broke at the horse races in Hot Springs, Launius presses on, without whining, resolved to "beat the odds" and live a valid life. This book is proof that he has found that life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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