Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars Thoughts of a Soulless Machine |
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| Author:
| Broks, Paul |
| ISBN: | 978-1-84614-536-0 |
| Publication Date: | May 2018 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books, Limited
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| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $39.99 |
Book Description:
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A man's wife dies. What next? The next day is next, and the next, and so on. He smothers his sorrow and gets on with the days. He's a Stoic. Tranquillity is the goal, but his brain won't rest. As a neuropsychologist he has spent a career trying to fathom the human brain but now, he comes to realize, his brain is struggling to make sense of
him - probing, doubting, reconstructing. Combining neurological case stories and memoir, and with excursions into speculative...
More DescriptionA man's wife dies. What next? The next day is next, and the next, and so on. He smothers his sorrow and gets on with the days. He's a Stoic. Tranquillity is the goal, but his brain won't rest. As a neuropsychologist he has spent a career trying to fathom the human brain but now, he comes to realize, his brain is struggling to make sense of him - probing, doubting, reconstructing.
Combining neurological case stories and memoir, and with excursions into speculative fiction and mythology, this is an audaciously original, deeply personal meditation on grief, time and selfhood.