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ERIC by DORIS LUND 345 pages. Lippincott...
...wits long enough during a remission to write Stay of Execution about his own plight before he died. Football Player Brian Piccolo's death became first a fond memoir by his friend Gale Sayers, then a TV film called Brian's Song. Now Freelance Writer Doris Lund offers Eric, a book about her son's successful four-year struggle to live courageously as this disease slowly destroyed...
...good literary disease. It offers a succession of intensifying crises, separated by weeks or months of remission during which the sufferer appears to be totally healthy and timid hopes of a permanent cure are raised. Surefire theater, in short. Such thoughts cannot be entirely dismissed, though Eric Lund's story must be considered on its own merits. When Lund's leukemia was diagnosed, he was a fairly ordinary 17-year-old Connecticut boy of the now apparently rare sort called "normal": tall, blond, outwardly untroubled, a fine soccer player. He was waiting for summer vacation...
Part of what made Lund so extraordinary was his driving vitality. He missed college that first year, but when drugs brought him to his first period of remission, he began to slog his wasted body through an incredible training regime, running ten to 20 miles a day, never doubting that he could enter the university and make the team. He did both. The disease hung on. Remissions were achieved each successive time by a more dangerous and exhausting use of drugs. With each reprieve, Lund began running again, rebuilding weight and stamina. By his junior year he was a soccer...
...died horribly. Leukemia books all end that way. But each story of a life ends with a death. What Eric Lund's mother says in this book, with much courage and dignity of her own, is that Eric lived a lifetime. The reader turns the last page hoping he will never see another book about leukemia but grateful for this one. ∙John Skow