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I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility
by Meili, Trisha
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0743244370
- ISBN 13
- 9780743244374
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About This Item
Good. Good Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket Sewn binding Cloth over boards 272 p Audience: General/trade From School Library Journal Adult/High School-In early 2002, convicted murderer and rapist Matias Reyes confessed to the brutal attack on a Central Park jogger in April, 1989, a confession substantiated by the identification of his sperm on her clothes Five black and Hispanic teens who had been "'"wilding"'" in the park that night had confessed and been convicted, and most had already served time for the assault Reyes's unexpected confession led to much recrimination of the justice system Meili can shed no light on her attack or attacker(s) She was so brutally beaten about the head, as well as being raped and sodomized, that she lay near death in a coma for 12 days in a hospital Over the next months, she had to relearn how to talk, feed herself, think abstractly, and walk Her balance still falters and she still is troubled by double vision in her left eye Her prolonged rec
Synopsis
Shortly after 9:00 P.M. on April 19, 1989, a young woman jogs alone near 102nd Street in New York City's Central Park. She is attacked, raped, savagely beaten, and left for dead. Hours later she arrives at the emergency room -- comatose -- with a fractured skull, an 85-degree body temperature, and she has lost so much blood that her doctors believe it's a miracle she's still alive. Meet Trisha Meili, the Central Park Jogger. It was a crime that stunned New Yorkers, the nation, the world. Even today, more than a decade after the attack, the Central Park Jogger -- who disclosed her name upon publication of this book -- is still in the news as startling new information about the perpetrators develops. Because of the nature of her injuries, Trisha Meili remembers nothing of the attack. But for Meili, the crime was not the climax but the beginning of an extraordinary journey. I Am the Central Park Jogger recounts the mesmerizing, inspiring, often wrenching story of human strength and transcendent recovery. Meili tells us who she was before the attack -- a young Wall Street professional with a promising future -- and who she has become: a woman who learned how to read, write, walk, talk, and love again...and turn horrifying violence and certain death into extraordinary healing and victorious life.
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- Pine Tree Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9017988847
- Title
- I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility
- Author
- Meili, Trisha
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0743244370
- ISBN 13
- 9780743244374
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2003
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