Movement: A Memoir of Disability, Cancer, and the Holocaust

by William Roth

Book Overview

As William Roth was taking his first steps, members of his family were caught up in the Nazi Holocaust. At age eight, he began to manifest the symptoms of dystonia, a neurological disease characterized by severe movement disorders. And at age forty-seven, he was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsil, a cancer that would prove as invasive as his genetic disease and as dreadful as his social persecution. This, his memoir, relates the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786437839
• ISBN13: 9780786437832
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher