Ivan R. Dee
Pages: 142
Trim: 5½ x 8½
978-1-56663-718-3 • Hardback • December 2006 • $19.95 • (£14.99)
Norman J. Fried, Ph.D., is director of psycho–social services for the division of pediatric hematology/oncology at Winthrop University Hospital/North Shore University Hospital on Long Island, New York. A clinical psychologist with graduate degrees from Emory University, he has also taught in the medical schools of New York University, Cornell University, and St. John's University, and has been a fellow in clinical and pediatric psychology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fried is a Disaster Mental Health Specialist for The American Red Cross of Greater New York, and he has a private practice in grief and bereavement counseling on Long Island. He is married with three sons and lives in Roslyn, New York.
Readers will shed tears of gratitude for what Dr. Norman Fried has given us.
— Arthur Kurzweil, author of Kabbalah for Dummies and On the Road with Rabbi Steinsaltz
The insights in this book can help the reader find ways to use their suffering as a path that opens out an expanded vision of this journey of love we normally call 'life.'
— Christine Longaker, author of Facing Death and Finding Hope.
[A] beautifully written book that provides the reader with invaluable lessons.... I recommend this book highly.
— David Pelcovitz Ph.D., Professor, Straus Chair in Psychology and Education, Azrieli Graduate School, Yeshiva University
Each poignantly written missive points a hauntingly hopeful lesson—in friendship...in love...and in other essentials for living.
— Donna Chavez; Booklist
Although the book will probably bring tears to readers' eyes, it likely will leave them feeling uplifted.
— Oklahoman
This is a very inspirational book.
— Spectator Australia
The Angel Letters is an extraordinary book.
— Ina Hughs; Sentinel
Any interested in belief, acceptance, and working through illness will find The Angel Letters an inspiration...
— Midwest Book Review
The lessons are written in a manner that is personal yet still able to transcend specific cultural and religious beliefs.
— Aphon Counts
A collection of poignant essays....This is an unusual and touching book....Fried manages to convey a sense of each child's struggle in a deeply compassionate and illustrative way.
— JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association