Siri Hustvedt

The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN

'Provocative but often funny, encyclopedic but down to earth . . . an extraordinary double story'
Oliver Sacks

'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear'
Hilary Mantel, Guardian

While speaking at a memorial event for her father, the novelist Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Was it triggered by nerves, emotion - or something else entirely?

In this profoundly thought-provoking and revealing book, Hustvedt takes the reader on her journey through psychiatry, philosophy, neuroscience and medical history in search of a diagnosis. Conveying the often frightening mysteries of illness, she illuminates the perennially mysterious connection between mind and body and what we mean by 'I'.

'Fascinating'
Daily Telegraph

'Elegant, clear and wide-ranging'
Independent

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781848945111
• Artikelnr.: 39229887

Autorenporträt

Siri Hustvedt is the author of seven novels, five collections of essays, a poetry collection and a memoir. Her books have been listed for major prizes, including the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize and the PEN America Literary Award, and she has been awarded the LA Times Book Prize, the Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon, the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities, the Princess of Asturia Award and the Openbank Literature Award, among others. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and has been awarded honorary PhDs from Johannes Gutenberg University, Stendhal University and the University of Oslo. She is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and has written on art for the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph. Born in Minnesota, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Rezensionen

Provocative but often funny, encyclopedic but down to earth...Hustvedt's erudite book deepens one's wonder about the relation of body and mind. Oliver Sacks