The Shaking Woman Or A History Of My Nerves

Author: Siri Hustvedt

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  • : $25.00 AUD
  • : 9780340998779
  • : Hodder & Stoughton
  • : Sceptre
  • : January 2011
  • : 22.99
  • : January 2011
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Description

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'.

Author description

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.