Dimensions
135 x 206 x 20mm
The incomparable Academy Award-winning actor and bestselling author tells a touching and inspirational story of survival.
It happened one sunny afternoon in 1995 in Los Angeles. Relaxing at home enjoying a manicure, Kirk Douglas suddenly felt a strange sensation in his right cheek. It was as if a pointed object had drawn a line from his temple, made a half circle on his cheek and stopped. And when he tried to describe what was happening to his manicurist, all that came out was gibberish. Kirk Douglas, cinema icon, movie legend, was having a stroke.
In this heartfelt, passionate and inspiring account, Kirk Douglas describes in powerful detail the incident that changed his life. He explains the helplessness and fear he felt following the attack, and the depression that took him to the brink of taking his own life.
But a mixture of love, support and sheer determination pulled him through. It was a humbling experience - Kirk, one of the great screen actors, had to learn how to speak all over again - but when he recovered to receive an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, it made all the hard work worthwhile.
With rare honesty and humour, he recounts his rehabilitation. In addition, he shares warm vignettes involving some of the most famous figures of our time.
