Author

Publication

2003 - University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska

Language

English

Word Count

60,750 words, Guess

Page Count

243 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing313288
  • Goodreads1047221

Classifications

  • DDC362.1/97481/092
  • LCCPS3569.K577 Z47 2003

Description

"In December 1988, Floyd Skloot was stricken by a virus that targeted his brain. The resulting damage left him totally disabled and utterly changed. In the Shadow of Memory is a candid memoir of living with a brain and a mind that have suddenly been shattered - an intimate picture of what it is like to find oneself possessed of a ravaged memory, unstable balance, and wholesale changes in both cognitive and emotional powers.". "But the book is more than an account of catastrophic metamorphosis. Skloot also explores the gradual reassembling of himself, putting together his scattered memories, rediscovering the meaning of childhood and family history, learning a new way to be at home in the world. Combining the author's skills as a poet and novelist, this book finds humor, meaning, and hope in the story of a fragmented life made whole by love and the courage to thrive."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

  • Biography.

Series Statement

  • American lives

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