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Article: A portrait of Matthew; Mother recalls son's life with Down syndrome.(Travel-Books)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 24, 2006
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Byline: ALLAN LUNDY
Born in 1964 with Down syndrome and severe heart defects that gave his skin a bluish color, Matthew Crosby was destined to live only 24 years. "Matthew" is his story, told nearly two decades after his death by his mother, a London artist. It is a delightful work, a pleasurable and engrossing read that gains its power precisely from its lack of sentimentality.
"Matthew: A Memoir" (Paul Dry Books; 350 pages; $24.95) is really two stories: of a young man's struggle with a complicated world not designed for people like him, and his mother's account of watching this life unfold in institutions and among friends and strangers whose own hearts are ...