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The answer to the riddle is me : a memoir of amnesia
- Title
- The answer to the riddle is me : a memoir of amnesia / David Stuart MacLean.
- Author
- MacLean, David, 1974-
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 14-5820 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 292 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In 2002, at age twenty-eight, David MacLean "woke up" in a foreign land with his memory wiped clean. No money. No passport. No identity. Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then started to hallucinate so severely he had to be tied down. Soon he could remember song lyrics and scenes from television shows, but not his family, his friends, or the woman he loved. All of these symptoms, it turned out, were the result of the commonly prescribed malarial medication he was taking. Upon his return to the States, he struggled to piece together the fragments of his former life in a harrowing, absurd, and unforgettable journey back to himself. A deeply felt, closely researched, and intensely personal book, The Answer to the Riddle Is Me, drawn from MacLean's award-winning This American Life essay, confronts and celebrates the dark, mysterious depths of our psyches and the myriad ways we are all unknowable, especially to ourselves. "--
- Subject
- Call Number
- JFE 14-5820
- ISBN
- 9780547519272
- 0547519273
- LCCN
- 2013026337
- OCLC
- 2013026337
- Author
- MacLean, David, 1974-
- Title
- The answer to the riddle is me : a memoir of amnesia / David Stuart MacLean.
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-5820