I TOOK IT LYING DOWN

by Marian Spitzer ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 9, 1951

A medical memoir which combines pathological fascination with likable candor, and which is the personal story of a Hollywood script writer who worked too hard, played too hard, and was handed a verdict of T.B. Obstinate by nature, she countered her first immobilization with rebellion, tried to outwit her own nurse, her doctor, her regime. Eventually she accepted the inevitable, learned to appreciate the position prone, the reading she gradually resumed, the widening of her world, the visits of her children and friends. Finally, her case arrested, she went back to work only to have pleurisy a month later. A dark summer of recovery ended with ""prognosis questionable"" on the chart. Defiant, she took up her old life, ignored precedents and precautions, and after another threat, accepted the fact that she must temper her ways. A reverse of the usual sweetness and light stories of illness and attendant emotional adaptation, further brightened by studio stars and a practised handling.

Pub Date: April 9, 1951

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Random House

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1951

Categories: NONFICTION