Ben Watt

Patient (eBook, ePUB)

The True Story of a Rare Illness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: "Unforgettable... Few have told such a compelling life-story as skillfully" ( San Francisco Chronicle). In the summer of 1992, on the eve of an American tour, singer/songwriter Ben Watt, one half of the Billboard-topping pop duo Everything But The Girl, was taken to a London hospital complaining of chest pain. As his condition worsened, doctors were baffled. He was eventually he was diagnosed with a rare life-threatening autoimmune disease called Churg-Strauss Syndrome. "To paraphrase Joseph Heller," Ben says, "you know it's something serious when they name it after two guys." By the time he came home, two-and-half-months later, his ravaged body was forty-six pounds lighter, and he was missing most of his small intestine. "Unfold[ing] like a page-turning mystery" ( The Los Angeles Times), and "told with great wit and without self-pity, Patientis a sobering look at how life can suddenly be transformed into a humbling vaudeville of tests, IV's, catheters, and bedpans" ( The New York Times Book Review). Injecting a frankness and natural humility into his "funny, frightening, and piercingly vulnerable" ( Interview) chronicle of a medical nightmare, Ben writes about his childhood, reflects on family, and his shared life with band member and partner, Tracey Thorn. The result is "a vivid, finely wrought look at having one's future yanked away, and surviving physically and emotionally" ( Dallas Morning Star-Telegram). A Sunday Times Book of the Year A Village Voice Favorite Book of the Year An Esquire (UK) Best Non-Fiction Award Finalist

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Press
• Seitenzahl: 177
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780802192035
• Artikelnr.: 42541886

Autorenporträt

Born in 1962, Benn Watt is a musician, songwriter, and DJ. He is also an acclaimed author; his most recent book is the memoir Romany and Tom. He is perhaps most well-known for his twenty-year career in alt-pop duo Everything But The Girl (1982-2002). He is an international club and radio DJ, and since 2003 has run his own independent record labels Buzzin' Fly and Strange Feeling. Having recently returned to songwriting and live performance, "Hendra"-his first solo album for thirty years-is now available on his new imprint Unmade Road. He lives in north London with his wife Tracey Thorn and their three children. Follow him on Twitter: @Ben_Watt

Rezensionen

An astonishingly assured anatomy of his ordeal, by turns terrifying, mordantly funny and intensely moving. Many people suffer the pain and indignities of intensive medical treatment; but few have written about it with quite such alarming vividness or clarity