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Original Title:	Death Be Not Proud
ISBN:	0060929898 (ISBN13: 9780060929893)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States)

Death Be Not Proud

John Gunther

Paperback | Pages: 206 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 10936 Users | 618 Reviews

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Title	:	Death Be Not Proud
Author	:	John Gunther
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 206 pages
Published	:	August 5th 1998 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (first published 1949)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Classics. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography

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Death Be Not Proud chronicles Johnny Gunther's gallant struggle against the malignant brain tumor that killed him at the age of seventeen. The book opens with his father's fond, vivid portrait of his son - a young man of extraordinary intellectual promise, who excelled at physics, math, and chess, but was also an active, good-hearted, and fun-loving kid. But the heart of the book is a description of the agonized months during which Gunther and his former wife Frances try everything in their power to halt the spread of Johnny's cancer and to make him as happy and comfortable as possible. In the last months of his life, Johnny strove hard to complete his high school studies. The scene of his graduation ceremony from Deerfield Academy is one of the most powerful - and heartbreaking - in the entire book. Johnny maintained his courage, wit and quiet friendliness up to the end of his life. He died on June 30, 1947, less than a month after graduating from Deerfield.

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This was a hard book to read. The death of a child is always sad, and intense medical descriptions are something (for me personally) that induce queasiness. I did feel like he was trying to convince me that his son's death was more tragic than other children's because he felt his son was more brilliant than others. This novel also comes from a place of privilege when you have so much money that you can afford the best hospitals and doctors for your child without thinking about it. It made me

I picked this up at a used book store prepared to throw it away if it wasn't good. In my experience, the better the title of a book you've never heard of, the more likely it is to be disappointing. By that standard, I was willing to take a chance on Death Be Not Proud but fully expected to be disappointed. I wasn't. Written in 1949 by the famous journalist John Gunther about his death of his son-a genius-at 17 from a brain tumor, DBNP is deeply moving and profound. As a young person who has

This book is featured on Shabby Sunday @ https://readrantrockandroll.com/2017/...This isnt a book I normally pick up, but I purchased it in a box of books from a church sale years ago, and after going through some of these books recently, it caught my attention. I love reading memoirs, but not so much when its a story about a child with cancer. I took a chance and continued reading because Id already read the blurb and knew what to expect. If you plan to read this book, you may want to skip my

A profound little book. I started reading this ages ago, before I was fully able to understand the subject matter. Now, reading it again as a young adult I am more apt to understand and appreciate this work. I am fascinated by Johnny's selfless tendencies - to care more for his parents than his own trials. He does express his upset occasionally, but for the most part he is consumed by his passions in science and his aspirations for the future. I wonder if he is so optimistic about his recovery

A truly disturbing book, in my opinion, for several reasons. Somehow, I escaped having to read this in high school. John Gunther, the father of Johnny and the author of this book, can be forgiven for writing a hagiography, though writing it for publication seems to me to have been a bit strange. Johnny has almost no voice here. Reducing him to a series of precocious comments and what are clearly coping strategies, deflection, and a heartbreaking attempt to keep his parents together as they

This memoir about death is full of life.

reread this memoir,after many years, of a teenage son's 15-month fight against brain cancer in the mid-1940s. it's moving, and fascinating not only in itself but as a time capsule... for one thing, gunther references the intelligentsia of the 30s and 40s (somehow without seeming like he's name dropping - but that could also be because the names are older... and some have fallen into obscurity). in a weird way, it reminded me of the movie Quiz Show, in its portrait of a time and (certain) place