Revertigo : an off-kilter memoir /
One March morning, writer Floyd Skloot was inexplicably struck by an attack of unrelenting vertigo that ended 138 days later as suddenly as it had begun. With body and world askew, everything familiar had transformed. Nothing was ever still. Revertigo is Skloot's account of that unceasingly ver...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wisconsin :
Terrace Books, a trade imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press,
[2014]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Part One: O Wondrous Transformation!
- 1. Some Things Nearly So, Others Nearly Not: The King and I and Me
- 2. Senior Speech
- 3. Beep Beep
- Part Two: On and Off the Page
- 4. Playing the Cock
- 5. The Bottom Shelf: On Novels I Keep Trying and Failing to Read
- 6. The Top Shelf: On Books I Need Beside Me
- 7. Something to Marvel At: Discovering Jules Verne at Sixty
- Part Three: A Spinning World
- 8. The Side Effect of Side Effects
- 9. Revertigo
- 10. Sway Me Smooth: Soundtrack for an MRI of the Brain
- 11. Anniversary FeverPart Four: Cartwheelson the Moon
- 12. Elliptical Journey
- 13. To Land's End and Back: A 1,512-Mile Drive Around Southern England
- 14. The Famous Recipe