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Passing For Normal - Couverture souple

Wilensky, Amy

 
9781847390158: Passing For Normal
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1847390153 ISBN 13 : 9781847390158
Editeur : POCKET BOOKS, 2006

Synopsis

Amy Wilensky was eight years old when she started to suffer from Tourette's Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The apple of her father's eye and a pretty, high achieving young girl, she watched as her body began to do things she couldn't control, her mind lurch and veer in ways she didn't understand. Ostensibly illogical, Amy's fears and compulsions ranged from an irrational dread of odd numbers, to a love of multiples of six; from denying herself water, to an impulse to stockpile rotting food; from needing to touch wood to ward off harm, to balancing on the edge of the subway platform. This involuntary dimension to her life was bewildering and potentially crippling. Now a young woman and a powerful witness to her own dysfunction, Wilensky looks back on the emotional fall-out of this socially disabling condition. By turns tragic and comic, her gripping narrative extends our understanding of the complex human mind and, with subtlety, humour and an eye for the absurd, challenges our notion of what it is to be 'normal'.

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À propos de l'auteur

Amy Wilensky is a graduate of Vassar College and Columbia University's MFA writing program. She lives in New York City.

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Éditeur
POCKET BOOKS
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1847390153
ISBN 13 
9781847390158
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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