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The Best Seat in the House
Allen Rucker
How I Woke Up One Tuesday and Was Paralyzed for Life
HarperCollins
January 2007
On Sale: January 9, 2007
256 pages
ISBN: 0060825286
EAN: 9780060825287
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Like the day Elvis died or O.J. was acquitted, the Tuesday
you wake up paralyzed is not a day you soon forget. For
writer Allen Rucker—baby boomer, husband, father of two,
aging Hollywood also-ran—life started over that Tuesday
when, at the age of fifty-one, he was struck by a rare
disorder—transverse myelitis—that left him paralyzed from
the waist down. Why him? Was he being punished? Was it his
stressful life? His frustrating career? Telling too many
Christopher Reeve jokes? Dazed and paralyzed, he was forced
to reevaluate everything, from the simplest bodily functions
to the mysteries of the universe. In a style that is at once funny and moving, The Best Seat
in the House offers an unpretentious and unapologetic
account of learning to live with paralysis. Without
trivializing his situation, and without sermons or clichés,
Rucker invites all readers, whether disabled or not, to
identify with him for better or for worse. This remarkably
comic and heartfelt book speaks to the fragility of life and
to the resilience and adaptability of a single, ordinary
human being. Lucky for us, this human being has a sense of
humor. At first, it may not look like the best seat in the house,
but read on. You might be surprised.
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