Tell Me the Planets: Stories of Brain Injury and What It Means to Survive
Autor Ben Platts-Millsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 feb 2019
Or you forgot everything every few seconds?
Or one side of your body stopped working?
InTell Me the PlanetsBen Platts-Mills explores the fractured lives of survivors of brain injury, providing an extraordinary glimpse into their daily struggles to lead normal lives. With empathy and insight, he describes their efforts to understand what has happened to them, avoid homelessness, help others worse off than themselves and make risky, almost impossible medical decisions about their futures.
Essential and inspiring,Tell Me the Planetswill take you on a journey to the frontiers of science and the limits of human resilience.
'An absorbing and moving account of what it is like to live with brain injury' Penelope Lively
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'Heart-breaking and uplifting . . . a vivid and unforgettable portrait of modern Britain by an extraordinarily-gifted story-teller' Robert Newman, author ofNeuropolis
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241976838
ISBN-10: 0241976839
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241976839
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Ben
Platts-Millslives
in
Hackney
and
has
spent
the
last
14
years
working
for
Headway
East
London,
the
charity
that
supports
survivors
of
brain
injury.
In
2013
he
led
on
the
development
of
the
life
writing
project,
Who
Are
You
Now?
which
publishes
survivors'
stories
(www.whoareyounow.org).
Recenzii
Platts-Mills
writes
withtruthandeloquenceabout
his
relationships
withbrain
injury
survivors,and
gives
usinsightinto
what
it
is
thatmakes
us
human,
and
how
thoserelationships
can
help
us
heal
Meticulous,thoughtful...lyrical phrases are striking in their precision
At turnsheartbreakinganduplifting, this is not just abrilliant bookabout thesurvivors of brain injury, but also avividandunforgettable portrait of modern Britainby anextraordinarily-gifted story-teller. Ben Platts-Mills tells the stories of child-refugee Liah, ex-gangster Danny and computer geek Matthew - in hourly peril of having their sense of self annulled - with greatvividnessandimagination
Anabsorbingandmoving account of what it is like to live with brain injury. Ben Platts-Millswrites vividly
Remarkable.Heartbreakinganduplifting
In Ben Platts-Mills'sextraordinarybook, thecharacters of people damaged by violence,strokeoraccidentof birthoutshine the medical details. He tells [their stories]wonderfully
Meticulous,thoughtful...lyrical phrases are striking in their precision
At turnsheartbreakinganduplifting, this is not just abrilliant bookabout thesurvivors of brain injury, but also avividandunforgettable portrait of modern Britainby anextraordinarily-gifted story-teller. Ben Platts-Mills tells the stories of child-refugee Liah, ex-gangster Danny and computer geek Matthew - in hourly peril of having their sense of self annulled - with greatvividnessandimagination
Anabsorbingandmoving account of what it is like to live with brain injury. Ben Platts-Millswrites vividly
Remarkable.Heartbreakinganduplifting
In Ben Platts-Mills'sextraordinarybook, thecharacters of people damaged by violence,strokeoraccidentof birthoutshine the medical details. He tells [their stories]wonderfully