Colin Grant

Broschiertes Buch

A Smell of Burning

A Memoir of Epilepsy

Beschreibung

He shows us the famous people with epilepsy like Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc and Vincent van Gogh, the pioneering doctors whose extraordinary breakthroughs finally helped gain an understanding of how the brain works, and, through the tragic tale of his brother, he considers the effect of epilepsy on his own life.

Autor

Colin Grant is an author, historian and critic. He has written acclaimed biographies of the Wailers and of Marcus Garvey. Bageye at the Wheel, his memoir of growing up in a Caribbean family in 1970s Luton, was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize. His history of epilepsy, A Smell of Burning, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. His most recent book, I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be was a New Statesman Book of the Year. He is director of WritersMosaic and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 186g
• ISBN-13: 9780099597872
• ISBN-10: 009959787X
• Artikelnr.: 48224266