Patrick Swayze has been apart of our lives for a long time. We watched him act, watched him dance, but in this book we get to know the man behind the big screen.
Patrick was a dancer his whole life and he fell in love with a dancer. The love story that Patrick and Lisa share is one almost unheard of in the shadow of those big lights. Yet somehow, they managed to do it. Patrick and Lisa shared almost everything in life.
This book is a story of where Patrick came from and who he became, before he became the face of pancreatic cancer. Gone too soon, he leaves behind a legacy of love and movies that touched us all.
Behind the scenes Patrick was a man who loved his family. He learned from his father that a man can be both tough and tender and that real men always are.
He suffered through several injuries doing the things he loved but never let it stop him. When he was diagnosed with cancer, although he knew it was a death sentence, he continued to live.
There is a thread of joy and hope through this story, even though we all know how it ends. Patrick shows that through hard work you can achieve amazing things, and through deep love can have a lasting relationship with those around you.
Long after he is gone we will remember. This book tells the story of the parts we didn’t already know, how he got started dancing, how he met his wife, his love of playing football.
It’s nice to read a book about a famous person who doesn’t spend time blaming others for his failures. Patrick takes accountability for his drinking and the problems it caused in his life. He loves his family and they were supportive. Although cancer took him much too soon at no point in this story will you feel like he is a victim.