I took a chance and continued reading because I’d already read the blurb and knew what to expect. I love reading memoirs, but not so much when it’s a story about a child with cancer. This isn’t a book I normally pick up, but I purchased it in a box of books from a church sale years ago, and after going through some of these books recently, it caught my attention. If you plan to read this book, you may want to skip m This book is featured on Shabby Sunday. He died on June 30, 1947, less than a month after graduating from Deerfield.more Johnny maintained his courage, wit and quiet friendliness up to the end of his life.
The scene of his graduation ceremony from Deerfield Academy is one of the most powerful - and heartbreaking - in the entire book. In the last months of his life, Johnny strove hard to complete his high school studies. But the heart of the book is a description of the agonized months during which Gunther and his former wife Frances try everything in their power to halt the spread of Johnny's cancer and to make him as happy and comfortable as possible.
The book opens with his father's fond, vivid portrait of his son - a young man of extraordinary intellectual promise, who excelled at physics, math, and chess, but was also an active, good-hearted, and fun-loving kid. But the heart of t Death Be Not Proud chronicles Johnny Gunther's gallant struggle against the malignant brain tumor that killed him at the age of seventeen. Death Be Not Proud chronicles Johnny Gunther's gallant struggle against the malignant brain tumor that killed him at the age of seventeen.
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