Willets George Willets

That's Easy for You to Say

Memoirs of a Smoker, Laryngectomee and Public Speaker.

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Produktbeschreibung

A graphic tale of addiction versus the deadly threat of cancer where noboy wins. If the addiction doesn't get you, the disease will. Willets writes from the heart when he describes his present circumstances "self inflicted. You will travel from the heights of elation to the depths of despair.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: iUniverse
• Seitenzahl: 92
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 128g
• ISBN-13: 9781450230377
• ISBN-10: 1450230377
• Artikelnr.: 30497721

Autorenporträt

This is the story of a man who refused to quit - in time. A ordinary man who had at one time or another in his life, and often all at the same time, developed a passion for lovely women, automobiles, cigarettes and alcohol. "And what is wrong with that?" George would ask. From afar a voice might have answered, "Nothing, as long as you don't take them all too seriously." George Willets was born in Fullerton, CA on May 13 1939, where he lived, on and off, for the next seventy years. The rest of his years wer spent in Northern California. In each place her owned and ran a professioal car striping business. From a very early age he had a passion for smoking interspersed with a healthydesire to drink. The latter addiction he overcame at a reasonably early age, but smoking took him a little longer. At school he was an athlete, playing hard, running hard: and that is the way he played his life. Cancer of the larynx was detected later in life and treated as successfully as they could with Chemo and radiation. The second onset of cancer ended with surgery and an skin graft Please read this book; it's an eye-opener