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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998."To all concerned, this book is meant to send a ghostly signal across the dark universe of ill-health that says 'you are not alone.'" - Robert McCrumOn July 29, 1995, Robert McCrum, 42, married only ten weeks, suffered a paralyzing stroke. Overnight, his life shifted irrevocably. But this admired novelist and former editorial director of the London publishing house Faber and Faber decided to chronicle what became a remarkable journey "into that mysterious, unexplored territory, the neighbourly world of the unwell," as well as a deeply moving love story.
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My year off, Robert McCrum
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- Released
- 1999
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- Title
- My year off
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Robert McCrum
- Publisher
- Picador
- Released
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0330369687
- ISBN13
- 9780330369688
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Health & Medicine, Medicine, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Medicine
- Original title
- My year off
- Rating
- 3 out of 5
- Description
- A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998."To all concerned, this book is meant to send a ghostly signal across the dark universe of ill-health that says 'you are not alone.'" - Robert McCrumOn July 29, 1995, Robert McCrum, 42, married only ten weeks, suffered a paralyzing stroke. Overnight, his life shifted irrevocably. But this admired novelist and former editorial director of the London publishing house Faber and Faber decided to chronicle what became a remarkable journey "into that mysterious, unexplored territory, the neighbourly world of the unwell," as well as a deeply moving love story.