Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them - Brossura

Cappello, Mary

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1595587772 ISBN 13: 9781595587770

Casa editrice: New Pr, 2012

Riassunto

Discusses what it means to ingest things humans weren't meant to eat, and how the line between human bodies and foreign bodies can sometimes blur.

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Recensione:

A warm and thoroughly researched portrait.”
The Washington Post

Cappello brings a psychoanalytic richness to her understanding of ingestion and dentition.”
The Guardian

[Cappello] packs her story with surprising imagery and extravagant lyricism, taking a highly literary approach on the subject.”
Salon

One odd, and oddly haunting, book.”
Macleans

"Swallow is a surprising and original work. It is biography on the slant, a meditation that transcends boundaries and genres, written with scholarship, humor, and panache. I urge you to take this journey."
Ricky Jay

"[Cappello's] writing style is wistful, wacky, and wise. . . . Swallow is a strange and alluring work of musings and medical history. . . . Occupying a curious position between Ripley’s Believe It or Not and riveting biography, this book is something special."
Tony Miksanek, MD, JAMA

"A wonderful and bizarre book: gorge yourself on it, and gulp."
Simon Winchester, author of Atlantic

"Cappello's fine writing creates a book that goes down very easy."
Paul Di Filippo, The Barnes & Noble Review

L'autore:

Mary Cappello is the author of Awkward (a Los Angeles Times bestseller), Called Back, and Night Bloom. A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, the Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination, and the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, she teaches at the University of Rhode Island and lives in Providence.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: New Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1595587772
• ISBN 13: 9781595587770
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 292