One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir

One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir

336 pages
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Published: 4 Apr 2011
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ISBN: 9780393341744

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date: 2 April 2012

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Description

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 wordlessness—the 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 brain’s 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 life’s myriad physical sufferings.