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My Year Off

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

My Year Off

By Robert McCrum

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About the book

With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No HarmMy brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I?Robert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of his body totally paralysed, his speech drastically impaired, and his sense of himself radically altered. What followed was a prolonged period of recovery, full of heart ache and frustration, as he gra...Show more

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9781447289265

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Published year

2015

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1

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My Year Off

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Paperback

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