title: A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope (Random House Large Print)
author:  Tom Brokaw 
description: Its impossible not to be inspired by Brokaws story, and his willingness to share it.<b><i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><br /><b><i></i></b><br />A powerful memoir of battling cancer and facing mortality . . . Through the prism of his own illness, Brokaw looks at the larger picture of aging in America.<b><i>Booklist</i>(starred review)</b><br /> <b><i></i></b><br /> Moving, informative and deeply personal.<b><i>The Daily Beast</i></b><br /><b><i></i></b><br />The former NBC News anchor has applied the fact-finding skills and straightforward candor that were his stock in trade during his reporting days to<i>A Lucky Life Interrupted</i>.<b><i>USA Today</i></b><br /><br />Brokaw doesnt paste a smiley face on his story. Again and again, the book returns to stories of loss but also of grace, luck and the beauty of having another swing at bat.<b><i>The Washington Post</i></b><br /> <b><i></i></b><br /> Engaging . . . [with] the kind of insight that is typical of Mr. Brokaws approach to life and now to illness.<b><i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br /> <b><i></i></b><br /> Powerful and courageous . . . [Brokaw] looks ahead to the future with hope.<b><i>Bookreporter</i></b><br /> <br /> Wryly good-natured . . . a wise and oddly comforting look at the toughest news of all.<b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
zlib_text: JOY HOUSE 
  Usually it begins with women, and the 
  clubs that spring up to show them off ..• 
  Then the gambling starts, and some of the 
  town's best people get involved in secret 
  activities ... corruption spreads ... the little 
  people are helpless • • • the big shots take 
  over. 
  
  Joy House 
  Day Keene 
  WORLD DISTRIBUTORS · LONDON 
  
  This CONSUL edition, complete and unabridged, 
  published In England, 1964, by 
  WORLD DISTRIBUTORS (MANCHESTER) LlD. 
  36 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON, W.C.1 
  Copyright © Day Keene 
  Conditions of Sale - This book shall not with-
  out the written consent of the Publishers first 
  given be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise 
  disPosed of by way of trade in any form of 
  binding or cover other than that in which it is 
  published. 
  Any similarity or apparent connection between 
  the characters in this story and actual persons, 
  whether alive or dead, is purely coincidental 
  Printed in Great Britain by 
  C. Nicholls & Company Ltd. 
  
  CHAPTER ONE 
  I SAT a moment, racke