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Saving Graces

Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers

by Elizabeth Edwards
Bernadette Dunne
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She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days before the 2004 election. She touched hundreds of similarly grieving families when her own son, Wade, died tragically at age sixteen in 1996. Now she shares her experiences in Saving Graces, an incandescent memoir of Edwards’ trials, tragedies, and triumphs, and of how various communities celebrated her joys and lent her steady strength and quiet hope in darker times.
Edwards writes about growing up in a military family, where she learned how to make friends easily in dozens of new schools and neighborhoods around the world and came to appreciate the unstinting help and comfort naval families shared. Edwards’ reminiscences of her years as a mother focus on the support she and other parents offered one another, from everyday favors to the ultimate test of her own community’s strength—their compassionate response to the death of the Edwards’ teenage son, Wade, in 1996. Her descriptions of her husband’s campaigns for Senate, president, and vice president offer a fascinating perspective on the groups, great and small, that sustain our democracy. Her fight with breast cancer, which stirred an outpouring of support from women across the country, has once again affirmed Edwards’ belief in the power of community to make our lives better and richer.

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  • Release date

    September 26, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780739346440
      • File size: 394913 KB
      • Duration: 13:42:44

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The wife of a presidential hopeful, a soccer mom, a dedicated community leader, and a lawyer, Elizabeth Edwards is also a woman of her own. Bernadette Dunne portrays her feistiness, courage, and down-to-earth zest as she reveals what enables her to survive the blows that slam into what she calls "ordinary days," in particular, the death of her 16-year-old son and her diagnosis of breast cancer four days before the 2004 Election. Edwards believes in hope and the compassion of both friends and strangers, and Dunne puts power behind those words. Written before she confronted the recurrence of her cancer, this is a first-rate memoir by a woman who would be a first-rate first lady. M.T.B. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      Elizabeth Edwards shares stories of her life and what makes her tick in this warm and engaging memoir, written before she confronted the recurrence of her cancer. An eternal optimist, Edwards recounts her childhood in a military family, her political awakening in college, and her life with her husband, vice presidential candidate John Edwards. The author's tone is gentle and accessible, and her gracious Southern charm flows freely. Whether recounting highlights of the campaign tour, her battle with breast cancer, or the tragic loss of her son, Edwards expresses herself from the heart, especially her unwavering love for her family. Her recollections and observations shine an enjoyable light on an exceptional woman. H.L.S. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 31, 2006
      The breast cancer diagnosis Edwards received on November 3, 2004, is dismayingly common. Uncommon, however, is the timing and the circumstances surrounding it. Wife of the vice presidential candidate John Edwards, Edwards's discovery of the lump on her breast came the day after the election and subsequent defeat of the Kerry-Edwards ticket. This mixture of the common and the uncommon, of the everyday and the extraordinary, defines Edwards and her life. A lawyer, mother of a grown daughter and two young children, and the wife of a politician, Edwards is both an optimist and a realist with the ability to laugh at herself. Yet she has had to endure a parent's worst nightmare—the death of her teenage son, Wade, in a car accident. In the end, however, Edwards's memoir is not about cancer, politics or even unbearable loss (though the description of her grief is heart-wrenching). It's about the value of people coming together to support each other. You'll find no celebrity gossip here. But like the kiss on the forehead her husband gave her at the end of their first date, this memoir is disarmingly moving. First serial to People, second serial to Ladies' Home Journal; feature in Good Housekeeping; national author tour; October 2 appearances on The Today Show and NBC Nightly News.

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