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Other editions of book Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy

  • Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy

    Dani Shapiro

    Paperback (Harper Perennial, Jan. 26, 2010)
    At twenty-three, Dani Shapiro was in the midst of a major rebellion against her religious upbringing. She had dropped out of college, was halfheartedly acting in television commercials, and was carrying on with an older married man when her life was changed, in an instant, by a phone call. Her parents had been in a devastating car accident. Neither was expected to survive. In her first memoir, Shapiro offers this powerful true story of a life turned around—not by miracles or happy endings, but by unexpected personal catastrophe.
  • Slow Motion: A True Story

    Dani Shapiro

    Hardcover (Random House, July 7, 1998)
    From one of the most gifted writers of her generation comes the harrowing and exqui-sitely written true story of how a family tragedy saved her life. Dani Shapiro was a young girl from a deeply religious home who became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney--her best friend's stepfather. The moment Lenny Klein entered her life, everything changed: she dropped out of college, began to drink heavily, and became estranged from her family and friends. But then the phone call came. There had been an accident on a snowy road near her family's home in New Jersey, and both her parents lay hospitalized in critical condition. This haunting memoir traces her journey back into the world she had left behind. At a time when she was barely able to take care of herself, she was faced with the terrifying task of taking care of two people who needed her desperately. Dani Shapiro charts a riveting emotional course as she retraces her isolated, overprotected Orthodox Jewish childhood in an anti-Semitic suburb, and draws the connections between that childhood and her inevitable rebellion and self-destructiveness. She tells of a life nearly ruined by the gift of beauty, and then saved by the worst thing imaginable. This is a beautiful and unforgettable memoir of a life utterly transformed by tragedy.
  • Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy

    Dani Shapiro

    Paperback (Harper Perennial, Feb. 1, 2010)
    At twenty-three, Dani Shapiro was in the midst of a major rebellion against her religious upbringing. She had dropped out of college, was halfheartedly acting in television commercials, and was carrying on with an older married man when her life was changed, in an instant, by a phone call. Her parents had been in a devastating car accident. Neither was expected to survive. In her first memoir, Shapiro offers this powerful true story of a life turned around—not by miracles or happy endings, but by unexpected personal catastrophe.
  • Slow Motion

    Dani Shapiro

    Paperback (Mariner Books, Oct. 21, 1999)
    Dani Shapiro, a young woman from a deeply religious home, became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney-her best friend's stepfather. The moment Lenny Klein entered her life, everything changed: she dropped out of college, began drinking, and neglected her friends and family. But then came a phone call-an accident on a snowy road had left her parents critically injured. Forced to reconsider her life, Shapiro learned to re-enter the world she had left. Telling of a life nearly ruined by the gift of beauty, and then saved through tragedy, Shapiro's memoir is a beautiful account of how a life gone terribly wrong can be rescued through tragedy.
  • Slow Motion

    Dani Shapiro

    Paperback (Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, March 15, 1999)
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  • Slow Motion

    Dani Shapiro

    Paperback (Mariner Books, March 15, 1658)
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  • Slow Motion : A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy

    Dani Shapiro

    Paperback (HarperCollins Publishers, Jan. 26, 2010)
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