The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

MacLean, David Stuart

ISBN 10: 0547519273 / ISBN 13: 9780547519272

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, NY, 2014

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Complete number line from 1 to 10; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with a few black and white photographs and reproductions of documents. Seller Inventory # 021163

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Title: The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of ...

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, NY

Publication Date: 2014

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+, Not Price Clipped

Edition: American First.

Book Type: Book

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Synopsis:

Brilliant and painful and hilarious. Antonya Nelson

On October 17, 2002, David MacLean woke up on a train platform in India with no idea who he was or why he was there. No money. No passport. No identity.

Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then started to hallucinate so severely he had to be tied down. Soon he could remember song lyrics, but not his family, his friends, or the woman he was told he loved. All of these symptoms, it turned out, were the result of the commonly prescribed malarial medication he had been taking. Upon his return to the States, he struggled to piece together the fragments of his former life in a harrowing, absurd, and unforgettable journey back to himself.

The Answer to the Riddle Is Me, drawn from David MacLean s award-winning This American Life essay, is a deeply felt, closely researched, and intensely personal book. It asks every reader to confront the essential questions of our age: In our geographically and chemically fluid world, what makes me who I am? And how much can be stripped away before I become someone else entirely?"

Product Description:

The Answer to the Riddle Is Me Imagine waking up in a train station in India with no idea who you are or how you got there. This is what happened to David MacLean.