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My Year Off Rediscovering Life After a Stroke by Robert McCrum


My Year Off Rediscovering Life After a Stroke

Robert McCrum

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My Year Off Rediscovering Life After a Stroke by Robert McCrum
'When I was just forty-two I suffered a severe stroke. Paralysed on my left side and unable to walk, I was confined to hospital for three months, then spent about a year recovering, slowly getting myself back into the world. When I was seriously ill in hospital, I longed to read a book that would tell me that I might expect in convalescence and also give me something to think about...' 'Not only a riveting account of his sudden illness, but of love being put under a real test: a heart-warming triumph' Kazuo Ishiguro, Sunday Times Books of the Year 'With its lucid heartfelt prose, My Year Off gives voice to the millions of people who suffer strokes ...More importantly, this book is a testament to the parallel trials and courage of the family members of stroke victims' New York Times Book Review 'Few of us can write in perfect health with the wit, skill, honesty and compassion that McCrum manages following a stroke' Professor Anthony Clare

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' 'Not only a riveting account of his sudden illness, but of love being put under a real test: a heart-warming triumph' - Kazuo Ishiguro, Sunday Times Books of the Year. 'With its lucid heartfelt prose, My Year Off gives voice to the millions of people who suffer strokes ...More importantly, this book is a testament to the parallel trials and courage of the family members of stroke victims' - New York Times Book Review. 'Few of us can write in perfect health with the wit, skill, honesty and compassion that McCrum manages following a stroke' - Professor Anthony Clare.'


About the Author

Robert McCrum

Robert McCrum is the author of several novels and two works of non-fiction, The Story of English and My Year Off. He is literary editor of the Observer and lives in London.


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Format
 Paperback
221 pages

Author
Robert McCrum

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Publisher
Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan

Publication date
2nd May 2008


ISBN
9780330457118
 

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