Pull Me Up: A Memoir

"What drives us to read [Barry's] book is the veracity of local details, the charm of his sentences and his sympathetic engagement with everyday life....It is indeed a familiar story, and you want to cheer because Barry tells it with such a likable, frank air. If his prose at times sounds too casual-journalese, the narrative voice is so natural and unpretentious that even slackness comes to seem part of its honesty. The gratitude he registers at the end for the grace that permitted him to live a little longer seems not pious so much as well earned."Dan Barry is the author of 'Pull Me Up: A Memoir', published 2005 under ISBN 9780393326918 and ISBN 0393326918.