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At the heart of Michael Ignatieff's riveting novel about a woman's descent into neurological illness are the tangled threads of a Midwestern family, ...Show synopsisAt the heart of Michael Ignatieff's riveting novel about a woman's descent into neurological illness are the tangled threads of a Midwestern family, frayed by time and tragedy yet still connected - as much by pride, embarrassed love, and sibling rivalry as by the painful ties of familial loyalty. A philosophy professor watches helplessly as his mother sinks into the mysterious depths of an unknown illness. His efforts to understand her gradual deterioration - from innocently misplaced eyeglasses and endlessly repeated anecdotes to a total loss of identity - lead him to reach out to his estranged brother, a neurologist, to learn all he can of the disease. Yet medical science is as powerless as philosophy to help them comprehend what is happening to her and to them, to explain the relation between brain and mind, between memory and selfhood, between heart and soul. The narrator, distrusting the usual explanations for his mother's tragedy, begins, dangerously, to lose his own bearings, as he senses how deeply his family - and life - have been transformed. Yet Scar Tissue affirms the power of true understanding, and at the end: "The owl is calling from the trees. Its hunt is about to begin. The moon hovers over the city and white light streams across the ivied floor of the park. I feel life calling me from this desk. I feel it bid me rise and walk out..."Hide synopsis
Description:New. Hardcover w / dustjacket. 2nd printing, 1994. NEW NEW NEW....New. Hardcover w / dustjacket. 2nd printing, 1994. NEW NEW NEW. New book in New DJ. No price clip. Stored in sealed plastic protection. No pricing stickers. No remainder mark. 1994. Hardcover w / dustjacket.
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Description:UNUSED, LIKE NEW, NOT EX-LIBRARY, Soft Cover ISBN: 0701141735 ...UNUSED, LIKE NEW, NOT EX-LIBRARY, Soft Cover ISBN: 0701141735 (BOOKER LISTED FICTION), 224 pages. At the heart of SCAR TISSUE is a son's account of his mother's voyage into a world of neurological disease, losing her memory and then her very identity, only to gain-at the very end-a strange serenity. Obsessed with his mother's transformation, the son sets out on his own quest for self-discovery. No recent British novel has traversed the worlds of reason and emotion, the human presence and its annihilation, so effectively and directlyPat Kane, New Statesman Both moving and intellectually challenging...a novel of rare resonance David ROBSON, Sunday TelegraphIgnatieff's novel impresses in its wisdom as much as in its restraint...this is a rich novel written by a magnanimous writer with an' exquisite talent for naturalismMichael Wright, The Times. Booker listed.
Description:New. 0374254281 First American Edition, 1994. Very nice ex...New. 0374254281 First American Edition, 1994. Very nice ex-library copy with protective dust jacket. Library stamps on flyleaf. Usual library markings. Very nice.
