Metamorphosis - A Life in Pieces (Hardcover)

"A pitch-perfect memoir: stylish, erudite, touchingly honest and darkly funny." Jacqueline Wilson "We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just in time ... But sometimes we are unlucky enough to be on the trapdoor when the lever is pulled. My own trapdoor was hidden in the consulting room of an Oxford neurologist." When the trapdoor opened for Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, he plummeted into a world of MRI scans, a disobedient body and the crushing unpredictability of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. But, like Alice tumbling into Wonderland, his fall did something else. It took him deep into his own mind: his hopes, his fears, his loves and losses, and the books that would sustain, inform and nourish him as his life began to transform in ways he could never have imagined. From Kafka to Barbellion, this is a literary map of the journey from the kingdom of the well to the land of the sick, and forwards into a hopeful future. It's an ode to great writing, to storytelling, to science and to the power of the imagination. And, above all, it's a darkly comic and moving reflection on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain.

General

Imprint:	Jonathan Cape
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2023
Authors:	Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Dimensions:	222 x 138 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-78733-425-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with illness Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-78733-425-2
Barcode:	9781787334250

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