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Corpus in Extremis
- A memoir
Engelsk
Bogcover for Corpus in Extremis af Loretta Smith, 9781922964069
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
200
ISBN-13:
9781922964069
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1922964069
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
11 jun 2024
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,2 x 0,5
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
11 jun 2024
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Corpus in Extremis

- A memoir
Engelsk
Paperback 2024
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Loretta Smith is renowned as the bestselling author of A Spanner in the Works, the biography of Alice Anderson, the 'garage girl'. Now in Corpus in Extremis, Loretta shares the details of her own fascinating and incredible life; a life in which she has had to negotiate the pain, physical restrictions, and medical interventions of Osteogenesis Imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease. She shows that despite being a patient for a lifetime, she has survived, and even thrived with an imaginative brain more agile than her body. You will be charmed, challenged, and will laugh out loud at her wit and ingenuity and as she embarks on travel, engages in work, grapples with family and relationships and takes up creative endeavours, all while enduring continuous medical treatments. Loretta explores what it is to reside in a body pushed to the extreme; what it is to be human, to be fractured, to be whole and to heal. She lucidly argues that nobody escapes being disabled, disenfranchised or othered in one way or another. To an observer I am simply a sleeping patient in a hospital bed in recovery. One of rows and rows and rooms full of us. But what small miracles are occurring? How do we right ourselves, our physical bodies, and bring the rest-psyche, soul, ether-into alignment? Protection is required lest one surfaces with fault lines ...
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
200
ISBN-13:
9781922964069
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1922964069
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
11 jun 2024
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,2 x 0,5
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
11 jun 2024
Forfatter(e):
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