About this title: At 19, Greenberg narrowly survived a devastating car crash. When her broken neck healed, she was hailed as a medical miracle. But when an unbearable pain in her neck returned many years later, she and her family were forced to deal with a medical system ill-equipped to handle patients with chronic pain.
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Date Published: 2009-03-24
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Date Published: 2009
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Date Published: 2009-03-24
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Date Published: 2009
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"Utterly compelling story of a woman's struggle to come to terms with chronic, disabling pain. Greenberg is a Milton scholar and deftly weaves the 'paradise lost' theme throughout the book. She begins each chapter begins with a poem as epigraph and then then uses that poem to explore a related theme. It's a difficult task to make the interior world of someone in pain an interesting read, but Greenberg manages to pull it off. Highly recommended."
"It's hard not to compare this book to Alice Eve Cohen's What I Thought I Knew, which I also just finished. Both, at least in part, are about the authors' experiences with doctors and Western medicine, but I found The Body Broken hard to get through, and I ended up skimming just so I could see what happened in the end. Lynne Greenberg's story is sad and compelling, but the way she tells it is so... pedantic and (I'm sorry) boring. She is the sort of writer who doesn't know what to leave out, so the book is full of (way too much) detail and really leaves nothing to the imagination. Stylistically, it feels very scholarly; there's not much in the way of voice or the sense of a real person speaking behind the written words. I love poetry, but I found myself getting actively irritated by the way she begins each chapter with a poem or quote from a poem, because she belabors the connections between them and her life seemingly endlessly--again, not leaving anything to the imagination or trusting that her readers might be able to understand what she's saying without her nailing it into the ground. Lots of cliches, and not much that was surprising or memorable."
"This is the memoir of a woman who goes from a successful, happy and seemingly perfect life to one of chronic pain that is literally debilitating. Greenburg chronicles her months of bedridden depression and agony with extreme candor. To the point that I wonder if she truly is happy now, she writes so well of the terribleness of it all. (Particularly when talking about the driver of the car who caused the accident that precipitated her pain, she certainly has not forgiven him.) For the most part, I liked her honesty and compassion for others similarly struggling. However, she is an English PhD and it shows. Her language is sometimes flowery and know-it-all. She fails to define a lot of medical jargon (describing symptoms and naming a lot of diagnoses without telling what it means, I found myself saying, I'll have to look that up later.) I was also surprised at the ending; she still lives in pain. The bridge from the months of never-ending grief and pain to acceptance and pain control was weak, and so when suddenly she was dealing with it I didn't really know why anything had changed."
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