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: Recounts the physical endangerment she faced at age eight on the set of Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen . She reflects on the failure of adults to protect her and the broader issue of child safeguarding in film.

The book was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and received widespread acclaim for its "forensic" and "unflinching" honesty. Critics from The New York Times , The Guardian , and The New Yorker praised her ability to synthesize the human condition through vulnerable storytelling. Go to product viewer dialog for this item. RunTowardstheDangerepub

25+ Copies Paperback Run Towards the Danger (Confrontations with a Body of Memory) - 9780593300374 by Sarah Polley : Recounts the physical endangerment she faced at

: Much of the book centers on the physical experience of living in a body that has been site to both struggle (scoliosis, injury, assault) and strength (childbirth, recovery). Critics from The New York Times , The

: Polley treats memory as a "reciprocal pressure dance" between past and present. She interrogates how her adult perspective allows her to re-examine childhood traumas and find "lighter" ways to carry them.

: Describes a bittersweet adult trip to Prince Edward Island, the setting of her first major TV role in Road to Avonlea . She contrasts her traumatic childhood experiences on the set with her present life as a mother.

The collection is structured into six long-form pieces that detail various "dangerous stories" from Polley's life: