Memories of Amnesia - Hardcover

Shainberg, Lawrence

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ISBN 10: 0945167008 ISBN 13: 9780945167006

Publisher: UNKNO, 1988

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Brain surgeon Izzac Drogin experiences firsthand the mysterious, frightening, and hilarious intricacies of the human mind when he begins to lose his to amnesia

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What happens to a neurosurgeon when his own brain becomes unhinged? In this grimly fascinating, frightening and painfully funny novel, seasoned brain surgeon Izzac Drogin swings between panic, false elation, immobility, fits and denial as he experiences symptomsfirst of amnesia, then of epilepsy and worse. Between her yoga classes and requests for a separation, his wife Millie (or is it Marjorie? or Martha?) accuses him of faking his forgetfulness; her martial arts instructor checks out his vibrations; Izzy's father, also a neurosurgeon, tries to map his troubled circuits; and his mother believes his growing incoherence is a ploy to evade adult responsibilities. Only a colleague, Eli, gets to the bottom of his condition, and the craniotomy he performs with Drogin's assistance must be every neurosurgeon's darkest fantasydirect visual and manual exploration of one's own neurological labyrinth. Shainberg, author of the nonfiction Brain Surgeon , here probes the mind's fragile grip on reality and sense of self. The reader's head is set spinning in a novel that says: it could happen to any of us.
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