One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir

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$16.44 - $34.09
UPC:
9780393341744
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
4/2/2012
Author:
Diane Ackerman
Language:
english
Edition:
1
One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Circle Critics Award

A testament to the power of creativity in language, lifeand love. Heller McAlpin, Washington Post

No other writer can blend the science of the brain with the love of language like Diane Ackerman. In this extraordinary memoir, she opens a window into the experience of wordlessnessthe language paralysis called aphasia. In narrating the recovery of her husband, Paul West, from a stroke that reduced his vast vocabulary to a single syllable, she evokes the joy and mystery of the brains ability to find and connect words. Deeply rewarding to readers of all kinds, Ackerman has given us a literary love story, accessible insight into the science and medicine of brain injury, and invaluable spiritual sustenance in the face of lifes myriad physical sufferings.

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