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Brain on Fire

von Susannah Cahalan

The New York Times bestseller that NPR calls "stunningly bravea kind of anti-memoir, an out-of-body personal account of a young woman's fight to survive one of the cruelest diseases imaginableAn unexpected gift of a book from one of America's most courageous young journalists.

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A gripping medical novel

“If it took so long for one of the best hospitals in the world to get to this step, how many other people were going untreated, diagnosed with a mental illness or condemned to a life in a nursing home or a psychiatric ward?” (151)

How many, indeed? And how many actually die?

“Brain on Fire” is a great book, in which Susannah Callahan, a young journalist at the New York Post, describes her experience with a mystery illness, causing, among other things, seizures, hallucinations,...

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Art:: Taschenbuch
Genre:: Fremdsprachige Literatur
Sprache:: englisch
Umfang:: 266 Seiten
ISBN:: 9781451621389
Erschienen:: August 2013
Verlag:: Simon + Schuster Inc.

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