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Author McCrum, Robert.

Title My year off / Robert McCrum
Edition First American edition
Published New York : W. W. Norton, 1998

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 MELB  362.19681 Mcc/Myo  AVAILABLE
Description 231 pages ; 22 cm
Summary On the morning of July 29, 1995, Robert McCrum - 42 years old, newly married, at the top of his profession as one of British publishing's most admired editors, and in what he thought was the full bloom of health - awoke to find himself totally paralyzed on the left side, the victim of a stroke brought on by a massive cerebral hemorrhage. After a nightmarish day struggling to reach a phone, he finally summoned help. In the weeks to come, McCrum would have to face the reality that his life had irrevocably changed and that medical science, maddeningly, could neither pinpoint the cause of the stroke nor offer any guarantee of recovery. What ensued was a battle beset by frustration and depression but equally marked by small victories, the help of dedicated physicians and therapists, and, first and last, the support of his new wife, whose love proved equal to their dismaying circumstances
My Year Off is a story of hope, written with the sort of candor and detail that has been missing in the literature of strokes up to this time. It is as well a grown-up love story of the most realistic - and hence, inspiring - kind
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-228)
Subject McCrum, Robert, 1953- -- Health.
Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Book editors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
LC no. 98029629
ISBN 0393046567