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Article: Gardner's painstaking 'Pursuit' led to better life, book, movie
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- December 10, 2006
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NONFICTION
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS
By Chris Gardner
With Quincy Troupe, Mim Eichler Rivas
HarperCollins, 320 pages, $11.95 (paperback)
The biggest struggle for author Chris Gardner -- who will soon be
portrayed on the big screen by Will Smith -- was recounting the
horrific events of his life, including childhood abuse and rape when
he was a teenager.
Gardner's memoir, The Pursuit of Happyness, is a classic American
rags-to-riches story and tells the astounding ascension of a
homeless man -- and single father -- who raised himself out of
poverty to become a millionaire Chicago businessman.
The book gives readers a no-holds-barred look at Gardner's
formative years in the ...