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Disability Memoir Published by the University of Iowa Press
For Immediate Distribution

Seven Wheelchairs: A Life beyond Polio was recently released by The University of Iowa Press.

The memoir is a history — an American tale — of Gary Presley’s fifty year wheelchair journey after being struck by both bulbar and lumbar poliomyelitis after a vaccine accident in 1959. The Press says Seven Wheelchairs gives “readers the unromantic truth about life in a wheelchair, he escapes stereotypes about people with disabilities and moves toward a place where every individual is irreplaceable.”

Other reviewers have called Seven Wheelchairs “sardonic and blunt,” “a compelling account,” and “powerful and poetic.”

We hope you can perhaps mention Seven Wheelchairs in one of your organizations newsletters or other publication. We know we all live our own stories in the world of disability, but perhaps you members might want to recommend the book to others who are unfamiliar with what it means to live a life disabled.

The book is also available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. And of course, Gary Presley am available for interviews via email or via telephone.

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Gary Presley www.garypresley.com
SEVEN WHEELCHAIRS: A Life beyond Polio
Fall 2008 University of Iowa Press