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The Sun Farmer. The Story of a Shocking Accident, a Medical Miracle, and a Family's Life and Death Decision.
Michael J. McCarthy
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Description for The Sun Farmer. The Story of a Shocking Accident, a Medical Miracle, and a Family's Life and Death Decision.
Hardback. Presents a personal account of courage and survival in the face of tragedy. This book features a tale of ordinary men and women placed in an extraordinary real-life nightmare. It involves a life-and-death decision, a long-shot development of the world's first artificial skin, and a horribly burned victim restored to life. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGTA; MNQ; VFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 413.
Ted Fink's wife heard the explosion from the living room, where she sat reading the day's mail and sipping iced tea. She ran to the front door and saw a massive curling fireball. Her husband was in the flames, she was certain. She called 911, asking for help at the farm.... So begins Michael McCarthy's extraordinary portrayal of a real-life nightmare: an Illinois corn farmer so badly burned in a tractor accident that only his feet, protected by his new steel-toe boots, escaped the flames. While he lay unconscious, his wife Rhoda, with no way of knowing how disabled or ... Read more
Ted Fink's wife heard the explosion from the living room, where she sat reading the day's mail and sipping iced tea. She ran to the front door and saw a massive curling fireball. Her husband was in the flames, she was certain. She called 911, asking for help at the farm.... So begins Michael McCarthy's extraordinary portrayal of a real-life nightmare: an Illinois corn farmer so badly burned in a tractor accident that only his feet, protected by his new steel-toe boots, escaped the flames. While he lay unconscious, his wife Rhoda, with no way of knowing how disabled or ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566637008
SKU
V9781566637008
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Ref
99-15
About Michael J. McCarthy
Michael McCarthy reported and edited for the Wall Street Journal for twenty-one years before he recently left to pursue educational and other writing interests. He was born and grew up in St. Louis and is now studying at DePaul University in Chicago.
Reviews for The Sun Farmer. The Story of a Shocking Accident, a Medical Miracle, and a Family's Life and Death Decision.
McCarthy provides edge-of-the-seat drama…he builds the portrayal of farmers as noble tillers of the soil.
Stephen J. Lyons, Stephen J. Lyons
Chicago Tribune
McCarthy writes sympathetically not only about Fink's plight...but also about Fink's wife...left to make the ultimate gut-wrenching choice.
Chicago Tribune
In The Sun Farmer, journalist Michael McCarthy relates the tragically captivating story ... Read more
Stephen J. Lyons, Stephen J. Lyons
Chicago Tribune
McCarthy writes sympathetically not only about Fink's plight...but also about Fink's wife...left to make the ultimate gut-wrenching choice.
Chicago Tribune
In The Sun Farmer, journalist Michael McCarthy relates the tragically captivating story ... Read more