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Patient: Cult Heroes of the Twentieth Century de Ben Watt

Patient: Cult Heroes of the Twentieth Century

Autor Ben Watt
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 1998
In the summer of 1992, on the eve of an American tour, Ben Watt, one half of the Billboard-topping pop duo Everything But The Girl, was taken into a London hospital complaining of chest pain. He didn't leave for two and a half months.
Watt had developed a rare life-threatening disease that initially baffled doctors. Four risky operations were performed to remove dead tissue from his insides before his condition was stabilized. By the dane he was allowed home, his ravaged body was forty-six pounds lighter and he was missing most of his small intestine. Watt injects pathos and humor into his medical nightmare, writing about his childhood, reflecting on his family and on his shared life with band member and partner Tracey Thorn. The result is a provocative and affecting memoir about life, illness, and survival.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780802135834
ISBN-10: 0802135838
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 139 x 208 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Grove Atlantic

Textul de pe ultima copertă

In the summer of 1992, on the eve of an American tour, Ben Watt, one half of British pop duo Everything But The Girl, was taken into a London hospital complaining of chest pain. He didn't leave for two and a half months. Still only twenty-nine, Watt had developed a rare life-threatening disease that initially baffled doctors. He needed two months of hospital treatment and four risky operations to remove dead internal tissue before the condition was stabilized. By the time he was allowed home, his ravaged body was forty-six pounds lighter, and he was missing most of his small intestine. But Patient is more than a diary of Watt's hospital days. As he awakens bewildered and disoriented in a hospital bed between bouts of surgery, Watt injects pathos and humor into his medical nightmare, writing about his childhood and reflecting on his family and on his shared life with bandmember and partner Tracey Thorn. The result is a provocative and affecting memoir about life, illness, and survival.

Descriere

In the summer of 1992, on the eve of an American tour, British pop star Ben Watt was hospitalized with a rare life-threatening disease that baffled doctors. "Though the details of his illness are terrifying, Watt's spare, delicate prose and natural humility are sweet enough to make this bitter pill of a book go down like candy".--ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY.

Notă biografică

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

Caracteristici

Republished to coincide with the release of Romany and Tom, Ben Watt's new memoir

Recenzii

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
Watt is made of particularly fine stuff, possessed of a shining intelligence that allowed him to transcend his horrible circumstances. I cannot think of any book that so clearly describes the gap between sickness and health, the greatest gap that exists between human beings
A vivid account of what it's like to be terribly ill. The details of Watt's hospitalization are brilliantly recollected, and he writes with a songwriter's eye for the telling phrase
This is not so much for the music lover as for lovers of life
Five minutes after beginning Patient I knew I was going to be all right. Watt is such a responsible, deft writer that you feel straightaway you're in good hands. He doesn't want your sympathy - he wants to tell you something about the world. He makes you laugh. The thing is you can read this and not feel sorry for him. That's his achievement
As gripping as an airport novel and as gruelling as a horror story
Quiet elegance and ringing epiphanic lyricism. Watt's writing shares these qualities and his book is a nearly flawless telling of his unexpected and drawn-out battle with an extremely rare - and nearly fatal - illness
Ben Watt's harrowing, candid account of his near death from one of the world's rarest diseases lives on in the mind - a fine testimonial to his fortitude, his powers as a writer and the NHS.