A Smell of Burning

A Memoir of Epilepsy

Colin Grant (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2017
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-959787-2 (ISBN)

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One day Colin Grant’s teenage brother Christopher failed to emerge from the bathroom. His family broke down the door to find him unconscious on the floor. None of their lives were ever the same again. Christopher was diagnosed with epilepsy. In A Smell of Burning Colin Grant tells the remarkable story of this strange and misunderstood disorder. He shows us the famous people with epilepsy like Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc and Vincent van Gogh, the pioneering doctors whose extraordinary breakthroughs finally helped gain an understanding of how the brain works, and, through the tragic tale of his brother, he considers the effect of epilepsy on his own life.

Colin Grant is an author, historian and critic. He has written acclaimed biographies of the Wailers and of Marcus Garvey. Bageye at the Wheel, his memoir of growing up in a Caribbean family in 1970s Luton, was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize. His history of epilepsy, A Smell of Burning, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. His most recent book, I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be was a New Statesman Book of the Year. He is director of WritersMosaic and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.08.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	181 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-09-959787-X / 009959787X
ISBN-13	978-0-09-959787-2 / 9780099597872
Zustand	Neuware