A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary by Andrew Levy (English) Paperback

Description: A Brain Wider Than the Sky by Andrew Levy Synopsis coming soon....... FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description With more than one in ten Americans—and more than one in five families—affected, the phenomenon of migraine is widely prevalent yet often ignored or misdiagnosed. For Andrew Levy, his migraines were occasional reminders of a persistent illness that hed wrestled with half his life. Then in 2006 Levy was struck almost daily by a series of debilitating migraines that kept him essentially bedridden for months, imprisoned by pain and nausea that retreated only briefly in gentler afternoon light. When possible, he kept careful track of what triggered an onset and in luminous prose recounts his struggle to live with migraines, his meticulous attempts at calibrating his lifestyle to combat and avoid them, and most tellingly, the personal relationship a migraineur develops—an almost Stockholm syndrome–like attachment—with the indescribable pain, delirium, and hallucinations. Levy researched how personalities and artists throughout history—Alexander Pope, Freud, Virginia Woolf, even Elvis—dealt with their migraines and candidly describes his rehabilitation with the aid of prescription drugs and his eventual reemergence into the world, back to work and writing. An enthralling blend of memoir and provocative analysis, A Brain Wider Than the Sky offers rich insights into an illness whose effects are too often discounted and whose sufferers are too often overlooked Author Biography Andrew Levy is Edna Cooper Chair in English at Butler University. He is author of the critically acclaimed Brain Wider Than the Sky, and the award-winning biography The First Emancipator. Review "A most remarkable book. "A Brain Wider Than the Sky" is learned, witty, allusive, and poetic -- and migraine becomes, for Levy, a window into the whole landscape of body and mind, health and disease, and the sheer complexity of being alive." -- Oliver Sacks, author of "Migraine" and "Musicophilia""This is a wonderful hybrid of a book about that most metaphysical of pains, the migraine headache. Part memoir, part historical inquiry, part philosophical meditation, "A Brain Wider Than the Sky" takes its reader on a physical and psychological journey and shows us that beauty and tranquility can be found in the least likely of places." -- Ann Packer, author of "Songs With out Words" and "The Dive from Clausens Pier" Review Quote "This is a wonderful hybrid of a book about that most metaphysical of pains, the migraine headache. Part memoir, part historical inquiry, part philosophical meditation,A Brain Wider Than the Skytakes its reader on a physical and psychological journey and shows us that beauty and tranquility can be found in the least likely of places."-- Ann Packer, author ofSongs With out WordsandThe Dive from Clausens Pier Details ISBN1416572511 Author Andrew Levy Short Title BRAIN WIDER THAN THE SKY Publisher Simon & Schuster Language English ISBN-10 1416572511 ISBN-13 9781416572510 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2010 Subtitle A Migraine Diary Country of Publication United States Qualifications Dr Pages 304 Place of Publication New York Imprint Simon Spotlight Entertainment Publication Date 2010-05-11 NZ Release Date 2010-05-11 US Release Date 2010-05-11 UK Release Date 2010-05-11 AU Release Date 2010-08-01 DEWEY 616.84912 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:23694568;

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