A Second Wind
The True Story that Inspired the Motion Picture "The Intouchables"
(Sprache: Englisch)
An inspiring, tragi-comic memoir about the relationship between a paralysed French aristocrat and his immigrant care-worker
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An inspiring, tragi-comic memoir about the relationship between a paralysed French aristocrat and his immigrant care-worker
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He is unbearable, vain, proud, brutal, inconsistent, human. Without him, I would have rotted to death. Abdel looked after me without fail, like I was an infant. Attentive to the smallest detail, present during all my absences, he delivered me when I was a prisoner, protected me when I was weak. He made me laugh when I cried. He is my guardian devil.'As the descendent of two prominent, wealthy French families and Director of Pommery Champagnes, Philippe Pozzo di Borgo was not in the habit of asking for help. Then, in 1993, right on the heels of his beloved wife's diagnosis of a terminal illness, a paragliding accident left him a quadriplegic. He was 42 years old and unable to do anything - even feed himself - without help.
Hidden behind the high walls of his Paris townhouse, Philippe found himself the modern equivalent of an 'untouchable' -- his total paralysis rendered him unable to reach out to others, and seemed to make others afraid to touch or acknowledge him. For the first time, he learned what it felt like to be marginalised. The only person who wasn't bothered by Philippe's condition was someone who had been an outsider his entire life - Abdel, the unemployed Algerian immigrant from the outskirts of society who would become Philippe's unlikely caretaker. In between dramas and jokes, he sustained Philippe's life for the next ten years.
Autoren-Porträt von Philippe Pozzo di Borgo
Pozzo di Borgo, PhilippePhilippe Pozzo di Borgo spent his childhood in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Trinidad, Morocco, Algeria and Corsica. He now lives in Essaouira, Morocco. A descendent of both the Ducs Pozzo di Borgo and the Marquises de Vogue, he is the former director of Pommery Champagnes (LVMH). His bestselling memoir Le Second Souffle (Second Wind) served as the basis for the hit French film, Intouchables (Untouchables).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Philippe Pozzo di Borgo
- 2012, 272 Seiten, Maße: 11,6 x 18,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Transl. by Will Hobson
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster UK
- ISBN-10: 1471111202
- ISBN-13: 9781471111204
Sprache:
Englisch
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