EAN: 9781787334250

METAMORPHOSIS - ROBERT DOUGLAS-FAIRHURST GEBUNDEN

A darkly comic and moving reflection on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is
certain  from the award-winning Oxford professor'The best book about multiple sclerosis'THE
TIMES'An outstanding feat'SUNDAY TIMESWe all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off
just in time ... But sometimes we are unlucky. 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.

Aktuelle Preise zur EAN 9781787334250

Produktinformationen zur 9781787334250