Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives
Autor Brian Dillonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mai 2010
Brian Dillon looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Daniel Paul Schreber, Alice James, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol - and what their lives tell us about the way the mind works with, and against, the body. His findings are stimulating and surprising, and the stories he tells are often moving, sometimes hilarious, and always gripping. With a new afterword on Michael Jackson.
Brian Dillon's first book,In the Dark Room, won the Irish Book Award for Non-fiction in 2006. He lives in Canterbury.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141044057
ISBN-10: 0141044055
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141044055
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Brian
Dillon
was
born
in
Dublin
in
1969.
He
writes
on
the
arts,
books
and
culture
for
a
number
of
publications.
His
first
book,In
the
Dark
Room,
won
the
Irish
Book
Award
for
Non-fiction
in
2006.
He
lives
in
Canterbury.
Recenzii
It's
so
good
that,
after
reading
it,
I
needed
a
lie-down.
A brilliant series of portraits
Fascinating ... Written with great elegance and shrewd understanding
Illuminating, humane and beautiful
Ingenious and intriguing
Brian Dillon is a superbly careful writer. ... [This book] will delight, move and horrify any of the millions of us who, like the late Spike Milligan, have at one time or another contemplated having "I told you I was ill" inscribed on our gravestones.
A mini-masterpiece
Excellent
Strangely delightful ... Dillon's book is constantly intelligent
You don't need to be a hypochondriac to enjoy this series of discursive, insightful essays that are full of quirky details and fascinating anecdotes
Illuminating
Eloquent and incisive
Dillon's mind is as interesting as those of the people he writes about ... bizarrely unputdownable
A brilliant series of portraits
Fascinating ... Written with great elegance and shrewd understanding
Illuminating, humane and beautiful
Ingenious and intriguing
Brian Dillon is a superbly careful writer. ... [This book] will delight, move and horrify any of the millions of us who, like the late Spike Milligan, have at one time or another contemplated having "I told you I was ill" inscribed on our gravestones.
A mini-masterpiece
Excellent
Strangely delightful ... Dillon's book is constantly intelligent
You don't need to be a hypochondriac to enjoy this series of discursive, insightful essays that are full of quirky details and fascinating anecdotes
Illuminating
Eloquent and incisive
Dillon's mind is as interesting as those of the people he writes about ... bizarrely unputdownable