My year off

By McCrum, Robert

Publishers Summary:
McCrum 42 years old and newly married, one night suffered a massive stroke. This account of how that night changed his life, told with candor, humor and comprehensible medical reportage.

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ISBN
978-0-39304-656-4
Publisher
New York : W. W. Norton, 1998.


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Reviewed on September 15, 1998

Stroke is often considered an old person's illness, yet on the morning of July 29, 1995, 42-year-old McCrum, one of Britain's most successful editors and recently married to New York Times reporter Sarah Lyall, woke up paralyzed on his left side. For the rest of that horrible day McCrum struggled to reach a phone to get help. This nightmarish episode was recently excerpted in the New Yorke...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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