Nothing Is Impossible, Christopher Reeve
Nothing Is Impossible, Christopher Reeve
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Nothing Is Impossible

Author: Christopher Reeve

Narrator: Christopher Reeve

Unabridged: 3 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2002


Synopsis

Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. If we can conquer outer space, we can conquer inner space, too.
Christopher Reeve has mastered the art of turning the impossible into the inevitable. In Nothing Is Impossible, the author of the bestselling autobiography Still Me shows that we are all capable of overcoming seemingly insurmountable hardships. He interweaves anecdotes from his own life with excerpts from speeches and interviews he's given.
Reeve teaches us that for able-bodied people, paralysis is a choice -- a choice to live with self-doubt and a fear of taking risks -- and that is not an acceptable one. Reeve knows from experience that the work of conquering inner space is hard and that it requires some suffering -- after all, nothing worth having is easy to get. He asks challenging questions about why it seems so difficult -- if not impossible -- for us to work together as a society. He steers the listener gently, offering his reflections and guidance but not the pat answers that often characterize inspirational works.
Published on the eve of both his fiftieth birthday and the seventh anniversary of his spinal cord injury, Christopher Reeve's Nothing Is Impossible reminds us that life is not to be taken for granted but to be lived fully with zeal, curiosity, and gratitude. That is a powerful message in itself, but it is the messenger who gives it its full resonance.

About The Author

Christopher Reeve has established a reputation as one of the country's leading actors, and since he was paralyzed in an equestrian competition in 1995, he has put a human face on spinal cord injury. Reeve is the chairman of the board of the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation (CRPF) and the vice chairman of the National Organization on Disability, and he lobbies vigorously for health-care reform and funding for research. He is the author of the bestselling book, Still Me and lives in upstate New York with his wife, Dana, and their children.Visit the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation Web site at www.christopherreeve.org and the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center Web site at www.paralysis.org.


Reviews

Goodreads review by La Crosse County Library on May 03, 2022

Review originally published October 2004 Sometimes an unassuming little paperback packs a big punch, and that is just the case with Nothing Is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life by Christopher Reeve. It is the story of a special person with an attitude that oozed vitality. Since his equestrian......more

Goodreads review by Debbie on May 22, 2011

I've always admired Christopher as an actor (especially in Somewhere in Time) and as one of the most inspiring people on this planet. So when I came across this book for sale in the library I grabbed it eagerly. Half way through it I was in tears in a cafe as I read about the everyday details of his......more

Goodreads review by JD' on November 15, 2020

Seems impossible that the greatest actor to ever play the man of steel 🦸‍♂️ would become a quadriplegic, needing 'round the clock care and a breathing ventilator aperatus just to survive? Superman talks about how he will never be able to wrestle with his boys again. He thought it would be impossible......more

Goodreads review by Scott on March 25, 2009

Listening to Christopher Reeve read his book with the aid of a ventilator which passes air over his vocal chords so he can speak is as sobering as it gets. It's a well-written book and I'm going to give it a family with a son who is now a C4 quadriplegic. It is realistic, too, and may be hard, but t......more

Goodreads review by Jim on February 10, 2021

It would be nearly impossible to criticize Reeve's book about his struggle with full-body paralysis and for greater funding of health initiatives, even controversial ones. Well, controversial for some. He died a couple years after writing this account of trying to regain some motion and his thoughts......more