A World of Light

by Floyd Skloot

Book Overview

From the winner of the 2004 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction In his award-winning memoir In the Shadow of Memory, Floyd Skloot told the hard story of coming to terms with a brain-ravaging virus. A World of Light, written with the same insight, passion, and humor that distinguished the earlier volume, moves Skloot's story from the reassembly of a self after neurological calamity to the reconstruction of a shattered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803238479
• ISBN13: 9780803238473
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

More of the same from Skloot!

I really enjoyed Skloot's previous two collections of writings, and I enjoyed this one too. This one is very different to the other two though as Skloot barely mentions his illness at all in this one. I came to know (and love) Skloot's writing because I could relate to his experiences with having a severe neurological illness. He writes so eloquently about all the symptoms and describes many of them so well, better than I've ever read anywhere else; it was like reading my own diary written by someone else at times! Wonderful writing. But I also came to just like reading what Skloot had to say when it wasn't about his illness too. So I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed either of his previous books - just don't buy it if you're only after more insights and discussions of his illness because they just aren't there!