It is the connection between the successful and the difficult sides of the Nobel Prize winner's life that Nan Bentzen Skille conveys as she steps inside the gate at Bjerkebæk and enters Undset's home. Combining the utmost probity and earnestness with a lively narrative and sense of humor, Bentzen Skille offers the reader a portrait of Sigrid Undset that has never been seen before.
It is the connection between the successful and the difficult sides of the Nobel Prize winner's life that Nan Bentzen Skille conveys as she steps inside the gate at Bjerkebæk and enters Undset's home. Combining the utmost probity and earnestness with a lively narrative and sense of humor, Bentzen Skille offers the reader a portrait of Sigrid Undset that has never been seen before.
This book has been eight years in the making. It is mostly a jumble of thoughts written down in old spiral notebooks and hidden in the bottom drawer underneath various manuals for software packages and hardware long since turned obsolete.
The story of Ron Hull, paralyzed in a surgical accident back in the dreaded polio epidemic days, was able to overcome most of the stigma and stereotypes and "pass for normal" for 30 years. As Ron's paralysis increased gradually through the next 20