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Author Skloot, Floyd.

Title A world of light / Floyd Skloot
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (199 pages)
Summary "In his memoir In the Shadow of Memory, Floyd Skloot told the story of coming to terms with a brain-ravaging virus. A World of Light moves Skloot's story from the reassembly of a self after neurological calamity to the reconstruction of a shattered life. More than fifteen years after a viral attack compromised his memory and cognitive powers, Skloot now must do the work of re-creating a cohesive life for himself even as he confronts the late stages of his mother's advancing dementia. With tenderness and candor, he finds surprising connection with her where it had long been missing, transforming the end of her life into a time of unexpected renewal."
"At the same time, Skloot and his wife are building a rich new life at the center of a small isolated forest on a hillside in rural Oregon, where a dwindling water supply and the bitter assaults of the weather bring an elemental perspective to his attempts to make himself once more at home in the world. A World of Light balances the urgency to capture fragmented, fleeting memories with the necessity of living fully in the present."--Jacket
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Subject Skloot, Floyd
SUBJECT Skloot, Floyd fast
Subject Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Oregon
Parent and adult child -- Oregon
Mothers and sons -- Oregon
POETRY -- American -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships
Authors, American
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts
Manners and customs
Mothers and sons
Parent and adult child
American Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
SUBJECT Oregon -- Social life and customs
Oregon -- Biography
Subject Oregon
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004025897
ISBN 0803205295
9780803205291