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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... seemed to grab him before he even landed , spinning him around into the full force of a backhand slap . Around noon we were home again , back in the apartment for a few hours of hissed arguments between my parents about where we had ...
... seemed to grab him before he even landed , spinning him around into the full force of a backhand slap . Around noon we were home again , back in the apartment for a few hours of hissed arguments between my parents about where we had ...
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... seemed to sour him on further exploration . The eight millimeter films he shot to commemorate this trip were all double exposed , as though such travel were indeed a ghostly illusion , a trick of memory , and life really took place only ...
... seemed to sour him on further exploration . The eight millimeter films he shot to commemorate this trip were all double exposed , as though such travel were indeed a ghostly illusion , a trick of memory , and life really took place only ...
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... seemed to be collapsing in on itself . From the parking lot where an Italian butcher shop used to be , a man approached and seemed to ask what we wanted . " My father used to own this market , " I said . " He sold it in 1957. " The man ...
... seemed to be collapsing in on itself . From the parking lot where an Italian butcher shop used to be , a man approached and seemed to ask what we wanted . " My father used to own this market , " I said . " He sold it in 1957. " The man ...
Contents
Damaged Brain | 3 |
Confessions of a Demented Man | 18 |
In the Shadow of Memory | 29 |
Copyright | |
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