An edition of A stroke of genius (1995)

A stroke of genius

illness and self-discovery

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An edition of A stroke of genius (1995)

A stroke of genius

illness and self-discovery

Like Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor, West trains the telescope of disease on a larger picture. Luckily for his readers, his symptoms have served to whet a riotous imagination that steadfastly refuses to be dampened by even the direst of trials.

In a manic search for order and meaning, he muses over hospital minutiae, the aloofness of doctors, Proust, Milton, existentialism, Coumadin and Inderal, pacemaker lore, the comedies of air travel, ersatz coffee, red-eye writing stints, and the enigma of his biological clock. "Each day is a pageant, an experiment," he writes. A Stroke of Genius is a rhapsody on the mystery of health and a newfound awareness that is the hard-earned gift of chronic illness.

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Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Pages
180

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Cover of: A Stroke of Genius
A Stroke of Genius
December 1999, Viking Penguin Inc
Paperback in English
Cover of: A stroke of genius
A stroke of genius: illness and self-discovery
1995, Viking
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York, N.Y., U.S.A

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.1/96, B
Library of Congress
RC108 .W42 1995, RC108.W42 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 180 p. ;
Number of pages
180

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1096073M
Internet Archive
strokeofgeniusil00west
ISBN 10
0670849561
LCCN
94020642
OCLC/WorldCat
30624287
Library Thing
1448213
Goodreads
3401793

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