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One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing
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One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing Hardback - 2011

by Diane Ackerman

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Combine the brilliant sensibility of a poet and essayist with the compelling articulation of her mindful wisdom, and intense devotion, and voila you have the powerful journey into the many ways love can inspire healing after profound brain damage. "One Hundred Names for Love" reminds us that healing is possible and that lives can be rebuilt from the inside out.--Daniel Siegel, M.D.

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Everyone who cherishes the gift of language will cherish Diane Ackerman's narrative masterpiece, an exquisitely written love story and medical miracle story, one that combines science, inspiration, wisdom, and heart.

One day Ackerman's husband, Paul West, an exceptionally gifted wordsmith and intellectual, suffered a terrible stroke. When he regained awareness he was afflicted with aphasia--loss of language--and could utter only a single syllable: "mem." The standard therapies yielded little result but frustration. Diane soon found, however, that by harnessing their deep knowledge of each other and her scientific understanding of language and the brain she could guide Paul back to the world of words. This triumphant book is both a humane and revealing addition to the medical literature on stroke and aphasia and an exquisitely written love story: a magnificent addition to literature, period.

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  • Title One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing
  • Author Diane Ackerman
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1ST
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Publication date 2011-04
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780393072419 / 039307241X
  • Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.34 x 1.14 in (23.62 x 16.10 x 2.90 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Cerebrovascular disease - Patients, West, Paul - Health
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010053553
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 01/01/2011, Page 30
  • Entertainment Weekly, 04/15/2011, Page 93
  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/01/2011, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 11/01/2010, Page 48
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 11/01/2010, Page 48
  • New York Times Book Review, 04/17/2011, Page 14
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/31/2011, Page 0

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