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Metamorphosis - A Life in Pieces (Hardcover)
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Metamorphosis - A Life in Pieces (Hardcover)
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"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.
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