Death be not proud

Johnny Gunther was seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his final illness everyone near was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unflattering patience threw the times of despair and those few heartbreaking days when it seemed, unbelievably,  that all would be well. This deeply moving book is a fathers memoir of a brave, in intelligent , and spirited boy in his fight to overcome a dreadful disease that doctors had only begun to understand.