Metamorphosis
A Life in Pieces
(Sprache: Englisch)
A darkly comic and moving reflection on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor
'The best book about multiple sclerosis'
THE TIMES
'An outstanding feat'
SUNDAY...
'The best book about multiple sclerosis'
THE TIMES
'An outstanding feat'
SUNDAY...
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A darkly comic and moving reflection on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor'The best book about multiple sclerosis'
THE TIMES
'An outstanding feat'
SUNDAY TIMES
We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just in time ... But sometimes we are unlucky. My own trapdoor was hidden in the consulting room of an Oxford neurologist.
When the trapdoor opened for Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, he plummeted into a world of MRI scans, a disobedient body and the crushing unpredictability of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. But, like Alice tumbling into Wonderland, his fall did something else. It took him deep into his own mind: his hopes, his fears, his loves and losses, and the books that would sustain, inform and nourish him as his life began to transform in ways he could never have imagined.
From Kafka to Barbellion, this is a literary map of the journey from the kingdom of the well to the land of the sick, and forwards into a hopeful future. It's an ode to great writing, to storytelling, to science and to the power of the imagination.
Autoren-Porträt von Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His books include Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, and The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World. He writes regularly for publications including The Times, Guardian, TLS and Spectator. Radio and television appearances include Start the Week and The Culture Show, and he has also acted as the historical consultant on TV adaptations of Jane Eyre, Emma, Great Expectations, the BBC drama series Dickensian, and the feature film Enola Holmes. In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
- 2023, 272 Seiten, Maße: 13,7 x 22,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Jonathan Cape
- ISBN-10: 1787334252
- ISBN-13: 9781787334250
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.03.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Metamorphosis is the best book I have read about multiple sclerosis, and that is because it is about so much more... It is simply a beautiful piece of writing. The Times
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