One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction) - Hardcover

Ackerman, Diane

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9781410436481: One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction)

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ISBN 10: 1410436489 ISBN 13: 9781410436481

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2011

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The author of The Zookeepers Wife describes her husband's terrible stroke which resulted in aphasia, or loss of language, and how she used their love and scientific understanding of language to help him regain his use of words. (biography & autobiography). Simultaneous.

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Review:

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

About the Author:

Diane Ackerman is the author, most recently, of The Zookeeper's Wife and Dawn Light. Author website: www.dianeackerman.com

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