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Harper Studio
October 2009
On Sale: October 13, 2009
240 pages
ISBN: 161679688X
EAN: 9781616796884
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Non-Fiction Memoir
From Kevin Connolly: "I was bitten nearly in half by a shark while swimming in
New Zealand. I was a victim of a Serbian mortar round in
Sarajevo during the Balkan wars. I have been the victim of a
dozen car accidents - head on collisions, vehicle rolls, and
pedestrian injuries. I have been the purveyor of magic
tricks for children - a routine often involving mirrors and
a trapdoor. I have been a beggar and vagabond - panhandling
across countries with varying degrees of success. I have
also been a holy man - bringing moments of inspiration and
light to those who chose to look for it. I am none these things - and I am all of them. My name is
Kevin Michael Connolly and I was born in Helena, Montana on
August 18th, 1985. I was also born without legs. All my life I′ve been an object of curiosity, the subject of
a stare. But, while I have shouldered the stares and stories
of others, the story of how I′ve managed to travel the world
is uniquely my own. DOUBLE TAKE is my story, and it begins
in many ways the day I was placed on prosthetic stilts at
the age of eight. In an attempt to capture the moments of intense curiosity I
experience on a daily basis, I traveled to 17 countries and
took over 32,728 photographs of people staring at me. In
Zurich, I raced down the Limmat River against a group of
twenty Vikings. In Bosnia, I scrambled to collect my
groceries after being side swiped by a car. In Malaysia, I
got caught in torrential rainstorms and had to skate and
paddle with one hand, while keeping my camera above the
rising tide with the other."
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