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The man who forgot how to read / Howard Engel ; afterword by Oliver Sacks.

Title
The man who forgot how to read / Howard Engel ; afterword by Oliver Sacks.
Author
Engel, Howard, 1931-2019
Publication
Toronto : HarperCollins Publishers, c2007.

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xv, 157 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
"One hot midsummer morning, crime novelist Howard Engel picked up his newspaper from his front step and discovered he could no longer read it. The letters had mysteriously jumbled themselves into something that looked like Cyrillic one moment and Korean the next. While he slept, Engel had experienced a stroke and now suffered from a rare condition called alexia sine agraphia, meaning that while he could still write, he could no longer read"--Jacket flap.
Subject
  • Engel, Howard
  • Engel, Howard, 1931-2019 > Health
  • Survivors
  • Alexia, Pure > rehabilitation
  • Alexia, Pure > psychology
  • Agraphia > Patients > Biography
  • Cerebrovascular disease > Patients > Canada > Biography
  • Authors, Canadian (English) > 20th century > Biography
  • Dyslexia, Acquired
  • Canada
Genre/Form
  • Personal Narrative
  • Biographies
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780002007146
  • 0002007142
OCLC
  • 155849454
  • SCSB-11408384
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library