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The Best Dancerby Christoph Keller |
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ISBN: 978-1932010220 |
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| Determined to live outside the confines of his disabled body, author Christoph Keller puts his life into perspective through wit and imagination. In this colorful memoir, Keller shows us that sometimes moments of great weakness can be moments of great happiness.At fourteen, Christoph Keller was diagnosed with a hereditary neuromuscular disorder called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) that should have confined him to a wheelchair by the age of twenty. Defying doctors’ advice to “take it easy,” he began to appreciate every moment by living each day to its fullest. By embracing the memories of an imagination-filled childhood, Keller was able to accept his alcoholic father and an ever-changing disability. This account of Keller’s experience demonstrates that every life can be full of laughter. |
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About the Author: Christoph Keller believes that everyone should not only know what it’s like to live with a disability, but should simply know how to live. Keller knows this very well, because he not only lives his life to its fullest, but he does it while living with an incurable disease. Born in 1963, Keller was raised in St. Gallen, Switzerland. At the age of fourteen, Keller was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy, an incurable degenerative disease which later forced him into a wheelchair. Keller broke out from his restricted world, overcoming his illness and his alcoholic father, to discover the world on wheels. From 1984 to 1991, Keller studied at universities in both Geneva and Konstanz, graduating with a Master’s Degree in Arts. Keller is the author of several novels, narrations, and plays. He currently lives in New York with his wife Jan. |