A Brain Wider Than the Sky
A Migraine Diary
$38.03
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2010
Summary
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 he’d 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781416572510 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1416572511 |
| Author: | Andrew Levy |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon Spotlight Entertainment |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 305g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 137mm x 23mm |
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Critics 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 Clausen’s Pier”
About The Author
Andrew Levy
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.
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