So Much More Than a Headache by Kathleen J O'shea
Some of the world's greatest literature is devoted to expressing the joys and sorrows humans experience as they grow old. New opportunities and challenges appear: retirement, a special closeness with the family, failing health, the recognition of personal mortality, prejudice against the elderly, and grief over the losses of loved ones and places. This collection of more than 60 short stories, poems, and plays addresses these issues primarily through the works of modern American writers, including Bernard Malamud, Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow, Edward Albee, Robert Frost, Denise Levertov, William Carlos Williams, Ernest Hemingway, Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, and others. The selections represent the experience of aging from the perspective of persons of diverse color, ethnicity, and background, and are complemented by illustrator Elizabeth Layton's wry and perceptive prints.
While there are many consumer health guides on migraines, O'Shea's book is unique in that it compiles selections from essays, novels, and short stories, written by well-known authors (many also migraineurs) such as Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, Oliver Sachs, and others lesser known, arranged around basic themes: what it feels like, what people don't see, and how to describe the indescribableVERDICT:A valuable resource to help migraineurs see their sufferings put into words and to help friends and family, bosses and co-workers, and physicians gain more empathy and understanding." - Library Journal
Kathleen O'Shea is professor of literature and philosophy at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York, and a sufferer of migraines. She has also published in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781606354032 |
| ISBN 10 | 1606354035 |
| Title | So Much More Than a Headache |
| Author | Kathleen J O'shea |
| Series | Literature And Medicine Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Kent State University Press |
| Year published | 2020-08-30 |
| Number of pages | 206 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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