Lying: a metaphorical memoir
Seizure chronicles the doctors, the tests, the seizures, the family embarrassments, even as it explores a sensitive child's illness as both metaphor and a means of attention-getting -- a human being's susceptibility to malady, and to storytelling as an act of healing and as part of the quest for love. This mesmerizing memoir openly questions the reliability of memoir itself, the trickiness of the mind in perceiving reality, the slippery nature of illness and diagnosis -- the shifting perception…
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- Full title :Lying : a metaphorical memoir / Lauren Slater.
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Seizure chronicles the doctors, the tests, the seizures, the family embarrassments, even as it explores a sensitive child's illness as both metaphor and a means of attention-getting -- a human being's susceptibility to malady, and to storytelling as an act of healing and as part of the quest for love. This mesmerizing memoir openly questions the reliability of memoir itself, the trickiness of the mind in perceiving reality, the slippery nature of illness and diagnosis -- the shifting perceptions and images of who we are and what, for God's sake, is the matter with us.
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- Publication Date:©2000.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Random House
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2000.
The Physical Object
- Description:221 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0375501126, 9780375501128
- oclc:ocm42812929
- LC Classification:RC372
- Dewey Decimal:361.1/96853/0092
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