Model Patient: My Life as an Incurable Wise-Ass CD and the imperiled future of

and the imperiled future of their traditional island life and beloved tweed

this highly provocative work is narrative history at its best

motherless daughter tell the story she needs to tell--her story

she reminds us of all those words

generosity

Model Patient: My Life as an Incurable Wise-Ass CD and the imperiled future ofFrom Revlon spokesmodel to film actress to one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People," Karen Duffy was living the life most of us only dream of. Then her whirlwind life of celebrity parties came to an abrupt, grinding halt when she was stricken with a serious illness in one of its rarest forms: sarcoidosis of the central nervous system. Duffy soon realized that the only way for her to survive was not to take the disease too seriously. Instead