Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives - Rilegato

Dillon, Brian

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ISBN 10: 1844881342 ISBN 13: 9781844881345

Casa editrice: Penguin Ireland, 2009

Riassunto

Tormented Hope is a book about mind and body, fear and hope, illness and imagination. It explores, in the stories of nine individuals, the relationship between mind and body as it is mediated by the experience, or simply the terror, of being ill. And in an intimate investigation of those nine lives, it shows how the mind can make a prison of the body, by distorting our sense of ourselves as physical beings. Brian Dillon, whose brilliant debut In the Dark Room established him as an uncommonly intelligent and fluent explorer of the realm where ideas and emotions overlap, 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.

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L'autore:

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.

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Praise for In the Dark Room
'An amazing achievement in terms of prose style alone' Daily Telegraph
'Moving and beautifully observed' Scotland on Sunday
'Remarkable' Time Out
'Arrestingly intelligent and freshly coloured ... [Dillon] is a born writer' Irish Independent

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• Editore: Penguin Ireland
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1844881342
• ISBN 13: 9781844881345
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288