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A Second Wind: A Memoir

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A Second Wind: A Memoir

â€œHe was unbearable, vain, proud, brutal, inconsistent, human. Without him, I would have rotted to death. . . . He was my guardian devil.â€

As the descendant of two prominent French families and director of one of the worldâ€™s most celebrated champagne houses, Philippe Pozzo di Borgo was not someone in the habit of asking for help. Then, in 1993, right on the heels of his wife being diagnosed with a terminal illness, a paragliding accident left him a quadriplegic.

Passing his days hidden behind the high walls of his Paris townhouse, Philippe found himself the modern equivalent of an â€œuntouchableâ€â€”unable to reach out to others, as others were afraid to reach out to him. The only person who seemed unaffected by Philippeâ€™s condition was someone who had been marginalized his entire lifeâ€”Abdel, the unemployed, uninhibited Algerian immigrant who would become his unlikely caretaker. In between dramas and jokes, he sustained Philippeâ€™s life for the next ten years.

A Second Wind, the basis for the major motion picture The Intouchables, is the inspiring true story of two men who refused to ask for help, and then wound up helping each other.
Country USA
Brand Atria Books
Manufacturer Atria Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 19867739
ReleaseDate 2012-05-22
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451689709

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