Memoire - 2 1/2 stars
In 1972 a team of young rugby players from Uruguay boarded a plane on their way to a match in Chili. Their plane crashed in the Andes, killing the pilots and many of the teammates. The survivors were left with little food or shelter as they waited 72 days for rescue. Eduardo Strauch is one of the survivors, and this is his telling of the event that marked his life. ----- If you've read the book or seen the movie ALIVE, you know the story and the horror these young men experienced in their fight to live. This telling is different. Deciding to share his story forty years after the tragedy, Mr. Strauch doesn't completely ignore the true-life horror of his experience, though his telling does seem detached from it. From crash to rescue covers barely half of the book. Instead, he seems in a rush to expose his deeply philosophical perspective of the tragedy. As a result, the book has a feeling of a cathartic release, detached from the tragedy itself while the true heroism and horror remain strangely muted.
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