In the Shadow of MemoryIn December 1988 Floyd Skloot was stricken by a virus that targeted his brain, leaving him totally disabled and utterly changed. In the Shadow of Memory is an intimate picture of what it is like to find oneself possessed of a ravaged memory and unstable balance and confronted by wholesale changes in both cognitive and emotional powers. Skloot also explores the gradual reassembling of himself, putting together his scattered memories, rediscovering the meaning of childhood and family history, and 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. |
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... drive in traffic , especially in our standard transmission pickup truck . I cannot talk about , say , the fiction of Thomas Hardy while I drive ; I need to be given directions in small doses rather than all at once , and need those ...
... drive in traffic , especially in our standard transmission pickup truck . I cannot talk about , say , the fiction of Thomas Hardy while I drive ; I need to be given directions in small doses rather than all at once , and need those ...
Page 125
... drive into Manhattan and see my mother's parents in their apart- ment on West Seventy - second Street ; we might drive to see my father's mother in her Brooklyn Heights apartment , where she moved after my grandfather died . Either trip ...
... drive into Manhattan and see my mother's parents in their apart- ment on West Seventy - second Street ; we might drive to see my father's mother in her Brooklyn Heights apartment , where she moved after my grandfather died . Either trip ...
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... drive to JFK , my mother is calm but confused and almost unrecognizably compliant . With no idea where she is or ... drive ? " " It's too far to drive . We're going to fly there , the three of us . " She nods . She looks out her window ...
... drive to JFK , my mother is calm but confused and almost unrecognizably compliant . With no idea where she is or ... drive ? " " It's too far to drive . We're going to fly there , the three of us . " She nods . She looks out her window ...
Contents
Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
Copyright | |
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