Read ‘Saving Jack’ review on AsiaOneAsiaOneNews: A man’s struggle with breast cancer
The heart-warming story on fear, faith and family support in the face of a death-threatening crisis will provide a source of inspiration and hope for men and their caregivers dealing with an unexpected disease.
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Read chapters of ‘Saving Jack’I was in the shower when I felt a pea-sized nodule under my right nipple. It startled me. I had never felt any lumps on my body, except for the occasional calcium deposit and the time my childhood friend Billy Mutzig hit me in the head with a chunk of wood.
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‘Prevention’ magazine features ‘Saving Jack’Prevention magazine interviewed Jack for its September issue. If you missed it, be sure to read it online here.
Photos from the road…Jack’s book signing at a Barnes and Noble in Tulsa June 28 had a great turnout!
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‘ForeWord Magazine’ features ‘Saving Jack’ForeWord Magazine, the only trade publication that specializes in independent publishers and authors, discussed Saving Jack in its May issue.
Saving Jack is intended for a diagnosis-specific niche group who have next to no firsthand accounts from a male survivor to reassure themselves with. The book does speak to that constituency with frankness regarding changing drives and emotional control, but the memoirist’s insights from treatment’s peaks and valleys can be helpful to male patients of any form of cancer. There is a better way than silent isolation; sharing that message is a service in itself.
‘Booklist’ review lauds ‘Saving Jack’From the American Library Association’s Booklist magazine (April 15, 2008):
Willis vividly, painfully, and sometimes beautifully renders the steps of the journey that followed: mastectomy, the onslaught of chemotherapy and learning to live with it, radiation therapy, the things that helped along the way, the long-term effects, and living thankfully after cancer. In the end, this is about support systems and accepting help with grace and gratitude. A moving account that fills an essential niche in the annals of breast cancer.
About ‘Saving Jack’A moving account of breast cancer from a surprising perspective…
It isn’t just a woman’s disease: few men stop to consider it, but one in a thousand males contracts breast cancer. Saving Jack is a moving first-person account of a man’s experience with breast cancer, a disease normally associated with women. In a tale of challenge and adversity, Jack Willis relates his personal experience, from first feeling a pea-sized nodule in his breast to being diagnosed, from mastectomy and chemotherapy treatments to positive prognosis. And in telling candidly of his struggles, he conveys his renewed appreciation of life.
‘Saving Jack’ in ‘Publisher’s Weekly’Publisher’s Weekly reviewed Saving Jack in its March 10 issue.
Willis delivers a moving memoir of his struggle with breast cancer, shining a light on a diagnosis that is given to approximately 2,000 men each year. … His journalistic training allows Willis to clearly and concisely tell his story.
Read the complete review at the Publisher’s Weekly site. (Scroll midway down the page.)
Now available from OU Press!Saving Jack is now available online from OU Press. Check back soon for dates and locations of upcoming signings and events with Jack!
Jack D. Willis is an author, a former newspaper editor and a retired journalism educator living in Edmond, Okla.