Four Umbrellas
A Couple's Journey Into Young-Onset Alzheimer's
Seiten
2020
Dundurn Group Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4597-4779-1 (ISBN)
Dundurn Group Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4597-4779-1 (ISBN)
- Titel z.Zt. nicht lieferbar
- Versandkostenfrei innerhalb Deutschlands
- Auch auf Rechnung
- Verfügbarkeit in der Filiale vor Ort prüfen
- Artikel merken
June watches and worries as her husband, Tony, gradually changes his interests, goals, and behaviour. The signs of dementia are all around, but a diagnosis of Alzheimer's takes seven years. Four Umbrellas provides a fresh perspective, bending the usual caretaker narrative by enfolding the voice of the person with the disease.
A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from — memory.
At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future. June is forty-eight, a writer and teacher, and over the following decade watches as her husband changes — in interests, goals, and behaviour — until Tony has a fall, ending the life they had known.
A diagnosis is seven years away, yet the signs of Alzheimer’s are all around. A suitcase Tony packs for a trip is jammed with four umbrellas, a visual symbol of cognitive looping. But how far back do these signs go? The couple starts probing the past and finding answers. This is not an old person’s disease.
A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from — memory.
At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future. June is forty-eight, a writer and teacher, and over the following decade watches as her husband changes — in interests, goals, and behaviour — until Tony has a fall, ending the life they had known.
A diagnosis is seven years away, yet the signs of Alzheimer’s are all around. A suitcase Tony packs for a trip is jammed with four umbrellas, a visual symbol of cognitive looping. But how far back do these signs go? The couple starts probing the past and finding answers. This is not an old person’s disease.
June Hutton has written two novels and facilitates writing workshops at a treatment centre for addiction. Tony Wanless worked for a variety of newspapers across Canada, including the Financial Post and the Province, and is taking part in a study on Alzheimer's at UBC Hospital. They live in Vancouver.
Erscheinungsdatum | 06.03.2022 |
---|---|
Verlagsort | Toronto |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 312 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4597-4779-8 / 1459747798 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4597-4779-1 / 9781459747791 |
Zustand | Neuware |
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
aus dem Bereich
Caspar David Friedrichs Reise durch die Zeiten
Buch | Hardcover (2023)
S. Fischer (Verlag)
25,00 €