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Original Title:	Death Be Not Proud
ISBN:	0060929898 (ISBN13: 9780060929893)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States)

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Death Be Not Proud chronicles Johnny Gunther's gallant struggle against the malignant brain tumor that killed him at the age of seventeen. The book opens with his father's fond, vivid portrait of his son - a young man of extraordinary intellectual promise, who excelled at physics, math, and chess, but was also an active, good-hearted, and fun-loving kid. But the heart of the book is a description of the agonized months during which Gunther and his former wife Frances try everything in their power to halt the spread of Johnny's cancer and to make him as happy and comfortable as possible. In the last months of his life, Johnny strove hard to complete his high school studies. The scene of his graduation ceremony from Deerfield Academy is one of the most powerful - and heartbreaking - in the entire book. Johnny maintained his courage, wit and quiet friendliness up to the end of his life. He died on June 30, 1947, less than a month after graduating from Deerfield.

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Title	:	Death Be Not Proud
Author	:	John Gunther
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 206 pages
Published	:	August 5th 1998 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (first published 1949)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Classics. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography

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A truly disturbing book, in my opinion, for several reasons. Somehow, I escaped having to read this in high school. John Gunther, the father of Johnny and the author of this book, can be forgiven for writing a hagiography, though writing it for publication seems to me to have been a bit strange. Johnny has almost no voice here. Reducing him to a series of precocious comments and what are clearly coping strategies, deflection, and a heartbreaking attempt to keep his parents together as they

Where has this gem been hiding. The amazing story of Johnny Gunther and his battle with a brain tumor in the mid-1940's is a book you are not likely to forget. This was published in 1949, and perhaps the fact that medicine has out-paced the procedures that were used for him has shoved this book aside, but the remarkable heart, bravery, and intelligence of a 17 year old boy who puts living and learning into a primary focus should not have.You will not be in tears but you will look at some

Read this a long time ago, and again just now because it was featured in Will Schwabe's "Books for Living." What struck me most about this story, of a high school senior who lives for 15 months with a brain tumor, is how much the world has changed -- and how little cancer has. John Gunther is an author, well known in his time, who tells the story of his son Johnny's short life from the spring weekend he was diagnosed with a brain tumor to his death just over a year later, just after his high

Somehow, I keep being drawn to books on death.This one very dissimilar to my own grief, as it is about the death of a child (17 yrs). Nonetheless it impressed me in various things.- Gunther himself says at the end that "the whys and wherefores of the celestial bookkeeping involved... I will not go into here." They are presented as an agnostic family. Rather he states that "the central pith and substance of what I am trying to write" is "that it was his spirit ... that kept him invincibly alive

I found this drab. A sad story. It was difficult to relate to the situation. Though Johnny Gunther seemed to have had a spirit even his overbearingly proud father could not dim even through his(father's) storytelling. I felt it was a rather inappropriate publication and seemed to have served the purpose of easing his(author's) own pain rather than enlightening the public with the triumphant soul of a helpless child, which is understandable. This story might better have been told with outside

This was a hard book to read. The death of a child is always sad, and intense medical descriptions are something (for me personally) that induce queasiness. I did feel like he was trying to convince me that his son's death was more tragic than other children's because he felt his son was more brilliant than others. This novel also comes from a place of privilege when you have so much money that you can afford the best hospitals and doctors for your child without thinking about it. It made me

I think it is too easy to talk about children who die before adulthood as though they are saints. They are unflawed and therefore able to be exalted as perfect after their deaths. They are - in the eyes of the storytellers - eternally brave, friendly, and hopeful. While the copy of Death Be Not Proud that I have includes Johnny's diary and letters, I do not believe that this account of his life was true in the sense that it tells his story from his own mouth. How do we know that he was not just