John Cotter

Losing Music

A Memoir of Art, Pain, and Transformation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A devastating account of the author's experience with the debilitating condition known as Mâeniáere's Disease that sheds urgent, bracingly honest light on both the taboos surrounding disability and the limits of medical science"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 149mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781571311948
• ISBN-10: 1571311947
• Artikelnr.: 64299930

Autorenporträt

John Cotter is the author of Losing Music. He has contributed essays, theater pieces, and fiction to New England Review, Raritan, Georgia Review , Guernica, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Joyland, Commonweal , and elsewhere. He currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Inhaltsangabe

I
Prelude 5
A New Life 15
Sound Shadow 35
On the Beach 61
The Polar Vortex 85
No Satori 113
INTERMEZZO
Four Music Lessons 137
II
The Trauma Test 151
Lost Things Dreams 177
The Hundred Oceans of Jonathan Swift 201 Other Lives 231
Shocked Quartz 253
Coda 263
Notes 275
Acknowledgments 283