Examines a variety of animal legs, noting how they look different and function in different ways. Animal legs shown include a frog, a grasshopper, a flying squirrel, a cougar, a flamingo, a honeybee and a giraffe.
Two thin legs - whose can they be? Funny split-page pictures show various animals trying out the pair of legs to see if they fit. But which animal do the legs belong to?
The barrier-breaking actress best known for her roles in "Julia" and "Grey's Anatomy" discusses her four marriages, the racial and sexual politics that shaped her roles in Hollywood and on Broadway, and the personal cost of her career.
Father Jon Mark, after suffering a shattered thigh bone, becomes a chaplain in the hospital during his extended recovery. A young woman with both legs damaged in an auto accident, an elderly nun who wants to go 'home' to die, and a world famous tenor team together to raise funds for the hospital in spite of their individual illnesses.
In these brilliant, thematically linked stories, men and women from the Midwest to the West Coast, from Germany to Japan—engineers, opera singers, waitresses, teenagers, and monks—reckon with their body’s relationship to grief, illness, violation, technology, and genocide. They escape their fate in unusual ways—by befriending the squatting heroin addict next door, using a child’s flute as a gun in the dark, or ordering a new pair of legs, all in a variety of rich settings. The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs is about the ways our bodies are marked by memory, often literally (burns, bruises, tracks, tattoos), and the risky decisions we make when pushed to the extreme. There’s a little O’Connor, a dash of DeLillo, and a cup of Alice Munro mixed together with a great deal of compassion. Leslie Campbell’s fiction debut is a must-read and sure winner.