A influência da força optimista na experiência de vida feminina.

Já les-te o seguinte livro:

Title: Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers
Author: Elizabeth Edwards.
Hardcover: 340 pages.
Publisher: Broadway (September 26, 2006).
Language: English.
ISBN-10: 0767925378.
ISBN-13: 978-0767925372.

Que turbilhão de emoções na vida de uma mulher (morte do filho, cancro da mama, derrotas políticas, etc.) e que maravilha assitir ao optimismo positivo na ultrapassagem de todos os problemas que decorrem de uma passagem humana por este mundo …

Aqui ficam alguns excertos do contexto que suscitou o meu interesse para esta grande obra pessoal e íntima da vida de uma mulher extraordinária:


Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards is an attorney.
She is married to John Edwards who is a former U.S. Senator from North Carolina, was the 2004 United States Democratic vice-presidential nominee and is a 2008 Democratic Party presidential candidate.

The Edwards are the parents of four children: Wade, Catharine, Emma Claire, and Jack. Wade was killed in April 1996 when he lost control of the Jeep he was driving from his Raleigh home to the family's beach house near Wilmington.

Now she shares her experiences in Saving Graces, an incandescent memoir of Edwards’ trials, tragedies, and triumphs.

She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days before the 2004 election. She touched hundreds of similarly grieving families when her own son, Wade, died tragically at age sixteen in 1996. Now she shares her experiences in Saving Graces, an incandescent memoir of Edwards’ trials, tragedies, and triumphs, and of how various communities celebrated her joys and lent her steady strength and quiet hope in darker times.


The breast cancer diagnosis Edwards received on November 3, 2004, is dismayingly common. Uncommon, however, is the timing and the circumstances surrounding it. Wife of the vice presidential candidate John Edwards, Edwards's discovery of the lump on her breast came the day after the election and subsequent defeat of the Kerry-Edwards ticket. This mixture of the common and the uncommon, of the everyday and the extraordinary, defines Edwards and her life. A lawyer, mother of a grown daughter and two young children, and the wife of a politician, Edwards is both an optimist and a realist with the ability to laugh at herself. Yet she has had to endure a parent's worst nightmare—the death of her teenage son, Wade, in a car accident. In the end, however, Edwards's memoir is not about cancer, politics or even unbearable loss (though the description of her grief is heart-wrenching). It's about the value of people coming together to support each other. You'll find no celebrity gossip here. But like the kiss on the forehead her husband gave her at the end of their first date, this memoir is disarmingly moving.

Elizabeth Edwards shares stories of her life and what makes her tick in this warm and engaging memoir, written before she confronted the recurrence of her cancer. An eternal optimist, Edwards recounts her childhood in a military family, her political awakening in college, and her life with her husband, vice presidential candidate John Edwards. The author's tone is gentle and accessible, and her gracious Southern charm flows freely. Whether recounting highlights of the campaign tour, her battle with breast cancer, or the tragic loss of her son, Edwards expresses herself from the heart, especially her unwavering love for her family. Her recollections and observations shine an enjoyable light on an exceptional woman.

Fontes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Edwards

http://www.randomhouse.com/broadway/savinggraces/saving_graces.html

http://www.amazon.com/Saving-Graces-Finding-Strength-Strangers/dp/0767925378