A Stroke of GeniusA Stroke of Genius
Illness and Self-discovery
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Book, 1995
Current format, Book, 1995, , No Longer Available.Book, 1995
Current format, Book, 1995, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsLike 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.
The critically acclaimed author of Love's Mansion utilizes the symptoms of the illnesses from which he suffers to embark on an imaginative quest for self-exploration, reflecting on such topics as existentialism, doctors, etymology, coffee, air travel, and more. 12,500 first printing.
Utilizes the symptoms of the illnesses from which the author suffers to embark on an imaginative quest for self-exploration, reflecting on such topics as existentialism, doctors, etymology, coffee, and air travel
"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.
The critically acclaimed author of Love's Mansion utilizes the symptoms of the illnesses from which he suffers to embark on an imaginative quest for self-exploration, reflecting on such topics as existentialism, doctors, etymology, coffee, air travel, and more. 12,500 first printing.
Utilizes the symptoms of the illnesses from which the author suffers to embark on an imaginative quest for self-exploration, reflecting on such topics as existentialism, doctors, etymology, coffee, and air travel
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