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National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation's poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father's life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of the brain and his astonishing ability, at the onset of Alzheimer's disease, to explain the causes of his sickness and then to narrate, step-by-step, his slow descent into dementia. Dr. Harry Kozol was born in Boston in 1906. Classically trained at Harvard and Johns Hopkins, he was an unusually intuitive clinician with a special gift for diagnosing interwoven elements of neurological and psychiatric illnesses in highly complicated and creative people. One of the most intense relationships of his career, his son recalls, was with Eugene O'Neill, who moved to Boston in the last years of his life so my father could examine him and talk with him almost every day. At a later stage in his career, he evaluated criminal defendants, including Patricia Hearst and the Boston Strangler, Albert H. DeSalvo, who described to him in detail what was going through his mind while he was killing thirteen women. But The Theft of Memory is not primarily about a doctor's public life. The heart of the book lies in the bond between a father and his son and the ways that bond intensified even as Harry's verbal skills and cogency progressively abandoned him. Somehow, the author says, all those hours that we spent trying to fathom something that he wanted to express, or summon up a vivid piece of seemingly lost memory that still brought a smile to his eyes, left me with a deeper sense of intimate connection with my father than I'd ever felt before. Lyrical and stirring, The Theft of Memory is at once a tender tribute to a father from his son and a richly colored portrait of a devoted doctor who lived more than a century.

About the Author :
Jonathan Kozol is the National Book Award-winning author of Fire in the Ashes, Savage Inequalities, Death at an Early Age, and other New York Times bestselling nonfiction. He has been working with children in inner-city schools for nearly fifty years. The most widely read and highly honored education writer in America, he has been awarded the National Book Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Sean Runnette, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, has also directed and produced more than two hundred audiobooks, including several Audie Award winners. He is a member of the American Repertory Theater company and has toured the United States and internationally with ART and Mabou Mines. His television and film appearances include Two If by Sea, Cop Land, Sex and the City, Law & Order, the award-winning film Easter, and numerous commercials.

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[A] luminous memoir...The author's approach is shrewd yet warmly empathetic; he is curious about how the mind's gradual breakdown exposes its machinery and raptly attuned to the emotional effects of these changes on his parents and himself. The result is a clear-eyed and deeply felt meditation on the aspects of family that age does not ravage. -- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)" A beautifully written love letter. -- "Booklist (starred review)" Among Jonathan Kozol's gifts as a writer is his ability to enter the world of his subjects, to live in the country of their experience, and to tell their stories with clarity and compassion. This beautifully told personal account is further enriched by an abiding family love. -- "Washington Post" Heartwarming...The Theft of Memory celebrates the bond between father and son in thoughtful, often beautiful prose. -- "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel" Poignant...Less about the loss of memory than the effort to create a testament to forgiveness and love. -- "Boston Globe" Readers familiar with the emotional toll exacted by a loved one with Alzheimer's will embrace Kozol's nostalgic, often heart-wrenching narrative as an important addition to the genre. A compassionate, cathartic, and searingly intimate chronicle of a crippling condition. -- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)" Sean Runnette narrates with a solemnity that is appropriate to the subject. His deep, clear voice moves the story along, and his poise and diction make every word understandable. -- "AudioFile"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781504616577
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
  • Height: 155 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Losing My Father, One Day at a Time
  • Width: 165 mm
  • ISBN-10: 150461657X
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jun 2015
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 272 gr


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