Tormented Hope
Author: Dillon, Brian
ISBN: 9780141044057
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 07 Jul 2010
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
A brilliant exploration, through nine famous lives, of the relationship between mind and body
Brian Dillon looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Daniel Paul Schreber, Alice James, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol - and what their lives tell us about the way the mind works with, and against, the body. His findings are stimulating and surprising, and the stories he tells are often moving, sometimes hilarious, and always gripping.
ISBN: 9780141044057
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 07 Jul 2010
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
A brilliant exploration, through nine famous lives, of the relationship between mind and body
Brian Dillon looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Daniel Paul Schreber, Alice James, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol - and what their lives tell us about the way the mind works with, and against, the body. His findings are stimulating and surprising, and the stories he tells are often moving, sometimes hilarious, and always gripping.
