The darker the night, the brighter the stars : a neuropsychologist's odyssey
Broks, Paul2018
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A man's wife dies. What next? The next day is next, and the next, and so on. He smothers his sorrow and gets on with the days. He's a Stoic. Tranquillity is the goal, but his brain won't rest. As a neuropsychologist he has spent a career trying to fathom the human brain but now, he comes to realize, his brain is struggling to make sense of him - probing, doubting, reconstructing. Combining neurological case stories and memoir, and with excursions into speculative fiction and mythology, this is an audaciously original, deeply personal meditation on grief, time and selfhood.
Main title:
The darker the night, the brighter the stars : a neuropsychologist's odyssey / Paul Broks ; with drawings by Garry Kennard.
Author:
Broks, Paul, authorKennard, Garry, 1948-, illustrator
Imprint:
UK : Allen Lane, 2018.
Collation:
ix, 308 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781846145360 (hbk)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2212147