Deborah Wearing
Auteur de Forever Today: A True Story of Lost Memory and Never-Ending Love
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Deborah Wearing
Gefangen im Augenblick. Die Geschichte einer Amnesie - und einer unbesiegbaren Liebe (2006) 2 exemplaires
The speed of light 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
- Organisations
- Amnesia Association
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 95
- Popularité
- #197,646
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 10
- Langues
- 2
Deborah tells the story of how she and Clive met in England while singing in a local choir. Despite their age difference, they quickly fell in love over their interest and careers in music. Shortly after their marriage, Clive fell ill with encephalitis and a slow response from doctors allowed time for critical memory regions of his brain to be destroyed. Deborah describes the time in the hospital and responses from friends, her fall into depression, a futile attempt to start a new life, and the ups and downs of the next few decades, sometimes with, sometimes without Clive. Deborah documents the story in riveting detail, even providing Clive's own notes and scribbles recording his confusion and desperate desire for Deborah to come be with him - these notes are absolutely the most powerful elements of the book.
The book is beautifully written. I'm not sure that I've ever read about stronger love between two people in such difficult circumstances, and the story ends with a final twist that makes an already powerful book even more astonishing.… (plus d'informations)