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Where Is the Mango Princess?
by C. E. Crimmins
ISBN: 0375404910
ISBN-13: 9780375404917
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
In this memoir, a woman explains how her husband's personality changed after he suffered from a traumatic brain injury. Once an intellectual with a taste for obscure foreign films, he became a idiotic fan of children's mediocre cartoons who masturbated in public. In describing his long-term rehabilitation, she reveals the emotional tolls such healing processes take on patients' families.
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 2000
Size: 6 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 1.05 pounds
Pages: 257
Publisher's Notes
In 1996 Cathy Crimmins and her husband, Alan, were on and idyllic lakeside holiday when a boating accident changed their lives forever. Alan had been a successful attorney, a connoisseur of wine, art, and exotic food. The accident left him in a deep coma, with severe damage to the frontal lobes of his brain--the areas that control speech, memory, movement, and personality. WHERE IS THE MANGO PRINCESS? is the story of what happened to Cathy and her family after Alan woke up, and of their sudden descent into a world that--like the world in Oliver sack's AWAKENINGS--was so energetically nutty, so acrobatic in its dysfunction, that Cathy's record of their days in the hospital and beyond is as much filled with laughter as it is with anguish. A powerful, funny book--terrifically life-affirming even in its darkest moments.
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Where It the Mango Princess?
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NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. The story of how a tragic accident nearly destroyed the author's family - the accident leaving her husband with severe brain damage, and the struggles in rehabilitation of the brain-damaged person.. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good. ( more information) Offered by UHR Books (United States)
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 2000. 257p. Very minor bumping. Slight rubbing to Dj. Unclipped, in protective sleeve. The story of the author's husband's journey through the labyrinth of medical care following horrendous brain injury.. 1st Edition. Hb with Dj.. NF/NF. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Castro & Cowan Booksellers (Canada)
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New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2000. 257 pages, bottom of spine bumped, dj extremities bumped and rubbed, dj lightly soiled.. 1st. Hb.. VG+/VG-. ( more information) Offered by Priceless Books (United States)
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Where Is the Mango Princess? : A Journey Back from Brain Injury
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. The author relates her husband's recovery from traumatic brain injury after a boating accident. Covers lightly scuffed, else a clean, tight copy. 257 pages. Owner writing and bookplate scar on front endpapers, jacket lightly soiled, else a clean, tight copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Old Saratoga Books (United States)
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Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000 hard cover. Very Good. Book: Remainder mark on head-edge.. First Edition. ( more information) Offered by Bookman (United States)
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Knopf. Hardcover. 0375404910 THIS IS A HARDCOVER BOOK WITH A DUST JACKET IN GREAT SHAPE, LOOKS LIKE NEW, NO DEFECTS INSIDE OR OUT. SHIPS QUICKLY WITH TRACKING NUMBER. . Fine. ( more information) Offered by MORGANA INC (United States)
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