Until Further Notice, I Am Alive - Couverture souple

Lubbock, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1783781467 ISBN 13 : 9781783781461

Editeur : Granta Books, 2014

Synopsis

In 2008, Tom Lubbock was diagnosed with a brain tumour, and told he had only one or two years to live. In this remarkable record of those years, lived out in three-month intervals between scans, he examines the question of how to live with death in sight. As the tumour progressed, Tom engaged intensely and imaginatively with work, art, friends, and his wife and their young son, while trying to remain focused on the fact of his impending death. His tumour was located in the area of the brain associated with language, and he describes losing control over the spoken and written word and the resources he drew on to keep communicating; a struggle which brought him ever closer to the mysteries of the origin of speech. As the Independent's chief art critic, he was renowned for the clarity and unconventionality of his writing, and the same fierce intelligence permeates this extraordinary memoir. This is a book written by a man wholly engaged with life even as it ends.

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À propos de l?auteur

Tom Lubbock (1958-2011) was the chief art critic of the Independent, an illustrator and a writer. He studied philosophy at Cambridge University, before moving to London where he worked for the BBC, the Observer, and the Independent. In 2008 he was diagnosed with a brain tumour, and told he had only two years to live. Until Further Notice, I am Alive is his memoir chronicling the years that followed. Tom Lubbock died in 2011.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783781467
• ISBN 13: 9781783781461
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
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• Personne responsable: non disponible