The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves
Author(s): Siri Hustvedt
While speaking at a memorial event for her father, the novelist Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Was it triggered by nerves, emotion -- or something else entirely?In this profoundly thought-provoking and revealing book, Hustvedt takes the reader on her journey through psychiatry, philosophy, neuroscience and medical history in search of a diagnosis. Conveying the often frightening mysteries of illness, she illuminates the perenially mysterious connection between mind and body and what we mean by 'I'.
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Siri Hustvedt is the author of five novels, THE BLINDFOLD, THE ENCHANTMENT OF LILY DAHL, WHAT I LOVED, THE SORROWS OF AN AMERICAN and THE SUMMER WITHOUT MEN, as well as a poetry collection, Reading to You, and three collections of essays, Yonder, Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting and A PLEA FOR EROS. Born and raised in Minnesota, she now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Paul Auster.
General Fields
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- : Hodder & Stoughton
- : Sceptre
- : 01 January 2011
- : 01 January 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Siri Hustvedt
- : Paperback