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Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities Paperback – June 29, 2010

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The bestselling author of Saving Graces shares her inspirational message on the challenges and blessings of coping with adversity.

She’s one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and on the surface, seems to have led a charmed life. In many ways, she has. Beautiful family. Thriving career. Supportive friendship. Loving marriage. But she’s no stranger to adversity. Many know of the strength she had shown after her son, Wade, was killed in a freak car accident when he was only sixteen years old. She would exhibit this remarkable grace and courage again when the very private matter of her husband's infidelity became public fodder. And her own life has been on the line. Days before the 2004 presidential election—when her husband John was running for vice president—she was diagnosed with breast cancer. After rounds of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation the cancer went away—only to reoccur in 2007.

While on the campaign trail, Elizabeth met many others who have had to contend with serious adversity in their lives, and in Resilience, she draws on their experiences as well as her own, crafting an unsentimental and ultimately inspirational meditation on the gifts we can find among life’s biggest challenges. This short, powerful, pocket-sized inspirational book makes an ideal gift for anyone dealing with difficulties in their life, who can find peace in knowing they are not alone, and promise that things can get better.
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“Short but surprisingly deep…It's a small book but a powerful one. And when you finish it you have not just a deeper understanding of Elizabeth Edwards but also a better appreciation for the strength of will it can take to survive.” –Los Angeles Times

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ELIZABETH EDWARDS is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Saving Graces. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with her two youngest children and husband, John.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crown; Reprint edition (June 29, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0767931564
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0767931564
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.58 x 7.5 inches
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ELIZABETH EDWARDS is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Saving Graces. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with her two youngest children and husband, John.

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James Hiller
5.0 out of 5 stars The Power of Adversity...
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2009
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... is something that Elizabeth Edwards knows a lot about. Grieving mother, cancer patient and a wife scorned could all fit her very well, but the label she wears most proudly is survivor, to the nth degree. Edwards new book, which she muses about the nature of resiliency, is a powerhouse of endurance, self-help, and perseverance.

I can imagine that many people who are going to pick up this book are looking for the lurid details of the latest news in Elizabeth Edwards' life, mainly, the affair her husband Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards had with a videographer on his campaign. As Edwards says herself, those details will not be found in the book. What is there, which she talks about in her second to last chapter, is her reactions to the affair, and her thought process she went through as she dealt with the betrayal of vows.

But oh, the book is so much more than that. Sometimes, "celebrity" writers are choppy and rambling in their books, even if "ghost written" by someone else. Not so Edwards. Her writing is evocative, personal, and incredibly engaging. Much of the book she wanders through the myraid of feelings she had as her sixteen year old son Wade died in a freak of nature car accident. Edwards as a grieving mother is beautiful and heartbreaking. The chapter she devotes exclusively to Wade cannot be read with a dry eye. Her writing evokes her personal journey in a way that has to be experienced.

But this is not a book of sadness; no, this is a book of continuing on. In the first chapter, she talks about her father's massive stroke and how, after she was told he was brain dead, he continued to live on, almost eighteen years. That lesson gave Edwards the stamina and courage to face whatever obstacles she would encounter in her own life. As she so beautifully put it, you have to "adjust the sails".

I am planning on keeping this book for my lifetime. When time offers trials to me, and I feel like I cannot endure, Edwards' words will give me a renewed sense of comfort. This book would also be an excellent gift to anyone grieving the loss of a relationship, a child, a parent; while each of our journeys is personal, the wisdom shared from that path, as Edwards remarkably does in this slim yet powerful book, can enlighten the road for all of us.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply beautiful and classy, just like its author!
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I watched Elizabeth Edwards on "Oprah" and was very impressed by her, and am equally so by her beautiful book that is sure to become a classic! Her deeply authentic and honest sharing of her life as well as the beautiful, clear style of her writing provide a very helpful road map for anyone having to deal with human life's dualities and hardships. I especially liked her deep insight and conclusion that atrocities are not 'acts of God', but part of the human picture that oftentimes include chance, random events happening, unfairness hitting really good, exceptionally strong people like herself and her focus on what we CAN control, our own beliefs and reaction and response to what happens. In that sense, she walks before all of us with such bravour, showing true response-ability even under the direst of circumstances, enabling us to make something beautiful out of what could be termed very tragic events. This book stays true to its title "Resilience" in every way and will help millions of people undergoing much lesser tragedies than this beautiful, strong soul had to endure. Elizabeth Edwards shines brightly with so much light and grace that I personally much prefer to give this gem of a book as a gift than "When things fall apart", another classic that helps many through a Dark Night of the Soul. Her chapter about Eternity will surely be read and re-read by generations to come, as will this entire pure volume. I salute this leading voice for her formidable example and look forward to more books and will definitely keep her in my prayer!
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Lara Bista
4.0 out of 5 stars Great book but it left me wanting to know more
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I felt like this book was a good read. It gave me plenty of information on Elizabeth Edwards. But it left me wanting to know more about the affair and her relationship with her husband which is the whole reason I read the book. If you are looking for that info you won't get a whole lot.
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Foster Corbin
5.0 out of 5 stars Elizabeth Edwards' Story Continued: So Much Grace and Grit
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2009
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RESILIENCE must have been a difficult book to write. While it is extremely well-written-- Elizabeth Edwards is a first class writer-- it was difficult to read in that it is sad beyond measure. Your heart goes out to this decent and good woman who certainly deserves a better hand than life has dealt her. Writing a review is difficult as well.

Ms. Edwards writes, with all the passion and sorrow that only a parent who has lost a child can, of the death of her beloved son Wade at sixteen-- surely Euripides is right when he says that it is unnatural for a parent to bury a child in his magnificent play "The Trojan Women," one of Rose Kennedy's favorite pieces of literature, as I recall, for obvious reasons. Ms. Edwards also discusses in detail the recurrence of her cancer that has now been diagnosed as incurable, and finally there is the revelation of her husband's extra-marital affair. You have to admire Ms. Edwards tremendously for refusing to ever give the woman a name.

Far too much has been made of Mr. Edwards' infidelity by both the television and print media when the author gave interviews upon the publication of RESILIENCE. From the coverage, you would assume that that is pretty much what this book is about-- the reason I had sworn off reading it. Nothing could be further from the truth. And while I suppose that Edwards' fall from grace would have to be news since he had ambitions of being president-- one has to question his fitness for such a high office when he seems to have fathered a child out of wedlock (such a quaint term in these times) and apparently had no worries about unprotected sex-- but I for one hope we have heard the last about such reprehensible behavior on Edwards' part so that this woman can concentrate on fighting for her life without the constant coverage of the subject from the media.

Portions of this small volume-- around 200 pages-- are almost too painful to read. For example, Ms. Edwards' account of visiting her beloved son's grave daily for days and months (?) on end and reading to him the books that he would have been required to read before heading off to college may be the saddest thing I have read in years. In the chapter entitled "Eternity" I was not surprised to learn that Ms. Edwards did not find the solace she sought in her faith alone. "The problem of how to view death was the biggest cloud that stood between me and my faith." Or in the words of James Russell Lowell whom she quotes: "But not all the preaching since Adam/Has made Death other than Death." She concludes that "I have to accept that I cannot expect intervention now. I do not pray for my health. God gave me this world, and He gave me free will. It is my world, and now, if I am able, I have to fix it."

Elizabeth Edwards draws strength from the example of her father who suffered a stroke in April, 1990-- the family members were told by a physician whom Ms. Edwards had never seen before and whom she summarily banned from her father's hospital room-- that he was brain dead and would never walk again-- but who lived for 18 more years and talked again, drove a car again, danced again, went whale-watching in Alaska and traveled to both Poland and Spain. Is there any wonder that this woman has resilience? She also has her children, her extended internet family that she discussed in length in her previous book SAVING GRACES, the knowledge that she was able to forgive her husband-- although he will have to earn her trust again-- and a new venture: she is now the owner of a small furniture store in Chapel Hill. As she says so poignantly, the storm, so awful as it has been, has not blown her away; but she has had to adjust her sails.

RESILIENCE certainly rises above a personal journal and can be read as a manual on how to live with adversity. No less a cynic than Christopher Hitchens in the September issue of the "Atlantic" magazine wrote the most positive review of Ms. Edwards' book-- something I thought he was incapable of-- that I have ever read by him. His very fine review convinced me to read the book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on August 28, 2014
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Beautiful story of an amazing woman and her courage.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 悲劇に耐え抜く人の強さ
Reviewed in Japan on February 6, 2011
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2010年12月8日に61歳で死去されたエリザベス・エドワーズさんの自伝です。

読んだ感想としてはこんな小説のような悲劇的な人生があるんだなと。
正直私が同じような境遇になったら耐えられる自信がありません。
そのような不幸な人生を耐え続けた彼女の人生は非常に読み応えがありました。

結婚した相手が政治家で、両親も健在で、子供にも恵まれた。
このような人生、普通に考えれば十分満足できる人生だったでしょう。
しかし長男が18歳で死んでからというもの彼女の人生は悲劇と言わざるを得ない人生に変わります。

子供の死、高齢出産、乳ガンとの闘病生活、夫の不倫、父親の死…
子供の死の後、これだけの不幸な出来事が連続して彼女に降り注ぎました。
そのような悲劇の中で、どのように彼女が思い、生き続けてきたのか。
もちろん大いに苦しんではいるのですが、それでもなお生き続ける彼女の姿勢を是非知ってほしいと思います。
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