One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing

by Diane Ackerman

Book Overview

Everyone who cherishes the gift of language will cherish Diane Ackerman's narrative masterpiece, an exquisitely written love story and medical miracle story, one that combines science, inspiration, wisdom, and heart.

One day Ackerman's husband, Paul West, an exceptionally gifted wordsmith and intellectual, suffered a terrible stroke. When he regained awareness he was afflicted with aphasia--loss of language--and could utter only a single syllable:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039307241X
• ISBN13: 9780393072419
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"