A Second Wind
A Memoir. 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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A Second Wind, the basis for the major motion picture The Intouchables, is the inspiring true story of two men who refused to ask for help and then wound up helping each other."He was unbearable, vain, proud, brutal, inconsistent, human. Without him, I would have rotted to death. . . . He was my guardian devil."
As the descendant of two prominent French families and director of one of the world's most celebrated champagne houses, Philippe Pozzo di Borgo was not someone in the habit of asking for help. Then, in 1993, right on the heels of his wife being diagnosed with a terminal illness, a paragliding accident left him a quadriplegic.
Passing his days hidden behind the high walls of his Paris townhouse, Philippe found himself the modern equivalent of an "untouchable"-unable to reach out to others, as others were afraid to reach out to him. The only person who seemed unaffected by Philippe's condition was someone who had been marginalized his entire life-Abdel, the unemployed, uninhibited Algerian immigrant who would become his unlikely caretaker. In between dramas and jokes, he sustained Philippe's life for the next ten years.
A Second Wind, the basis for the major motion picture The Intouchables, is the inspiring true story of two men who refused to ask for help, and then wound up helping each other.
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
- VIII, 255 Seiten, Maße: 17,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Transl. by Will Hobson
- Verlag: Atria Books
- ISBN-10: 145169704X
- ISBN-13: 9781451697049
Sprache:
Englisch
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