cover image Halfway Home: My Life 'Til Now

Halfway Home: My Life 'Til Now

Ronan Tynan. Scribner Book Company, $26 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-2291-4

Imagine having both your legs amputated below the knee. Picture yourself relearning to walk, finally making it to the disabled Olympic games and winning 18 gold medals and 14 world records. Then envision yourself becoming the first disabled person ever admitted to the National College of Physical Education. Ronan Tynan has done all this and more, and he explains how he overcame such adversity in his moving art biography, Halfway Home: My Life 'til Now. As Tynan (now one of the popular Irish Tenors and currently planning a U.S. tour with his two partners) says, ""Faith is the bird that fells the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."" ( Jan. 8)