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Hemisheres : inside a stroke /

"Home is as old as one's skin but as elusive as an object seen through the wrong end of a telescope." It is this sense of a view, skewed, intangible, which echoes throughout Karen Lazar's Hemispheres. Waking in hospital after a post-operative stroke, she finds one side of her bod...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lazar, Karen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cape Town, South Africa : Modjaji Books, [2011]
Colección:Contemporary memoir
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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