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Everyone who cherishes the gift of language will cherish Diane Ackerman's narrative masterpiece, an exquisitely written love story and medical miracle story, one that combines science, inspiration, wisdom and heart. One day Ackerman's husband, Paul West, an exceptionally gifted wordsmith and intellectual, suffered a terrible stroke. When he regained awareness he was afflicted with aphasia-loss of language-and could utter only a single syllable: mem.A" The standard therapies yielded little result but frustration. Ackerman soon found, however, that by harnessing their deep knowledge of each other and her scientific understanding of language and the brain she could guide West back to the world of words. This triumphant book is both a humane and revealing addition to the medical literature on stroke and aphasia and an exquisitely written love story.
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Eight years ago, author and naturalist Diane Ackerman watched helplessly as her husband, novelist Paul West, suffered a catastrophic stroke that robbed him of his formidable vocabulary and rendered him speechless. [ .. ] Here Diane explains how, by striving to restore his voice, they created a profound new bond. --Mail on Sunday, 16 April 2011
Ackerman and West s is an extraordinary love story, and that a devastating stroke intervened has made it only more moving. Since we are all mortal, none of us will experience love without also experiencing loss. This book has done what no other has for me in recent years: it has renewed my faith in the redemptive power of love, the need to give and get it unstintingly, to hold nothing back, settle for nothing less, because when flesh and being and even life fall away, love endures. This book is proof. --Abraham Verghese, New York Times 15 April 2011
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Ackerman and West s is an extraordinary love story, and that a devastating stroke intervened has made it only more moving. Since we are all mortal, none of us will experience love without also experiencing loss. This book has done what no other has for me in recent years: it has renewed my faith in the redemptive power of love, the need to give and get it unstintingly, to hold nothing back, settle for nothing less, because when flesh and being and even life fall away, love endures. This book is proof. --Abraham Verghese, New York Times 15 April 2011
Diane Ackerman is the author, most recently, of The Zookeeper's Wife and Dawn Light. Author website: www.dianeackerman.com
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Co.
- Publication date2011
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