The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.40 (755 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0544227700 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Ok at best. First 1/Ok at best. First 1/3 to half was great Ok at best.First 1/3 to half was great. I was really hooked and started recommending to everyone around me.The last 1/3 let me down though. Struggled to get to the finished, just hoping it would end.This is great for the questions it asked and tried to answer. A theme of questioning yourself is always a good theme. Just poorly executed at the end.. to half was great" according to J.W. Avery. Ok at best.First 1/Ok at best. First 1/3 to half was great Ok at best.First 1/3 to half was great. I was really hooked and started recommending to everyone around me.The last 1/3 let me down though. Struggled to get to the finished, just hoping it would end.This is great for the questions it asked and tried to answer. A theme of questioning yourself is always a good theme. Just poorly executed at the end.. to half was great. I was really hooked and started recommending to everyone around me.The last 1/Ok at best. First 1/3 to half was great Ok at best.First 1/3 to half was great. I was really hooked and started recommending to everyone around me.The last 1/3 let me down though. Struggled to get to the finished, just hoping it would end.This is great for the questions it asked and tried to answer. A theme of questioning yourself is always a good theme. Just poorly executed at the end.. let me down though. Struggled to get to the finished, just hoping it would end.This is great for the questions it asked and tried to answer. A theme of questioning yourself is always a good theme. Just poorly executed at the end.. Good read. charlene johnson Quick shipment. Good read.. N. B. Kennedy said A wild ride through a writer's amnesia. On October 17, "A wild ride through a writer's amnesia" according to N. B. Kennedy. On October 17, 2002, David MacLean woke up on a train platform in Hyderabad, India. He had no idea where he was or why he was there. Not only that, but he didn't even know WHO he was. Mr. MacLean hadn't been sleeping -- he was standing when he came to -- and he hadn't been drinking or taking drugs. Illegal drugs, that is. He had been taking an anti-malarial medicine, Lariam (mefloquine). In time, he discovers he suffered a mental break and total amnesia as a result of taking that drug while living in India on a Fulbright schol. 00"A wild ride through a writer's amnesia" according to N. B. Kennedy. On October 17, 2002, David MacLean woke up on a train platform in Hyderabad, India. He had no idea where he was or why he was there. Not only that, but he didn't even know WHO he was. Mr. MacLean hadn't been sleeping -- he was standing when he came to -- and he hadn't been drinking or taking drugs. Illegal drugs, that is. He had been taking an anti-malarial medicine, Lariam (mefloquine). In time, he discovers he suffered a mental break and total amnesia as a result of taking that drug while living in India on a Fulbright schol. , David MacLean woke up on a train platform in Hyderabad, India. He had no idea where he was or why he was there. Not only that, but he didn't even know WHO he was. Mr. MacLean hadn't been sleeping -- he was standing when he came to -- and he hadn't been drinking or taking drugs. Illegal drugs, that is. He had been taking an anti-malarial medicine, Lariam (mefloquine). In time, he discovers he suffered a mental break and total amnesia as a result of taking that drug while living in India on a Fulbright schol
“A mesmerizing, unsettling memoir about the ever-echoing nature of identity—written in vivid, blooming detail.” —Gillian Flynn, best-selling author of Gone Girl On October 17, 2002, David MacLean “woke up” on a train platform in India with no idea who he was or why he was there. He could remember song lyrics, but not his family, his friends, or the woman he was told he loved. “MacLean is an exceedingly entertaining psychotic A raw, honest and beautiful memoir.”—New York Times “A deeply moving account of amnesia that explores the quandary of the self MacLean has written a memoir that combines the evocative power of William Styron’s Darkness Visible, the lyric subtlety of Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family and the narrative immediacy of a Hollywood action film. No identity. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Ploughshares, and on the radio program This American Life. He has a PhD from the University of Houston and is a cofounder of the Poison Pen Reading Series.. His illness, it turned out, was the result of the commonly prescribed antimalarial medication he had been taking. No money. Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then start
From Booklist While studying in India on a Fulbright scholarship in 2002, Ohio native MacLean abruptly lost consciousness and came to his senses in a Hyderabad train station minus any memories of his name or reasons for being there. In addition to short-circuiting his memories, the drug’s aftermath forced MacLean to get reacquainted with his parents, a girlfriend, and his rationale for coming to India in the first place. --Carl Hays . His work is both a sharply written autobiography and an insightful meditation on how much our memories define our identities. So begins this riveting, sad, and funny memoir from PEN literary award-winner MacLean, expanded from an essay featured on the radio show, This American Life. Luckily, a kindly station attendant to