Author: Melissa Pritchard Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820341932 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 193
Book Description
In these stories by Melissa Pritchard, the past brushes up against the present, the voices of both the sane and the obsessed are heard, and the spirits speaking unbidden through the mouths of some spurn others who desire them most. Some of the men and women in Spirit Seizures dwell contentedly on the surface of life, even making a science or an art of what they see around them. But many of the characters in these stories see—sometimes calmly, sometimes with agitation—beneath life's surface, beyond sun's light. The title story tells of a psychic women, pregnant with her second child, who welcomes over her farmer husband's objections the visits of an older couple desiring a séance with the spirit of their dead daughter. Spirits are also summoned in "Rocking on Water, Floating in Glass," when a woman consults the shade of Sarah Bernhardt to help her decide whether to leave her refuge in a dark antique shop and reenter the world of the living. The husband in "Ramon; Souvenirs" recalls his wife's obsession with pueblo culture and her ambitious courtship of the impotent Indian elder who she hopes will initiate her into native spiritual mysteries. But the greatest desire of La Bête, a spectacularly obese model painted by the French impressionists, is to herself become a perfect object, viewed and adored for her form, not her crude essence. Mrs. Grant in "With Wings Cross Water" is painfully isolated from the surface of her family's life by her fears of terminal illness, of what lies beneath her skin. And Mrs. Gump, the reverend's housekeeper, prays and cleans the house furiously, hoping to obliterate all traces of the worldly beauty that distracts her employer and her artist son from the hereafter. Written with humor but often poignant when they reveal the veins of longing that run through men and women, the stories in Spirit Seizures follow the elusive currents that link us to the eternal, the fluid boundaries that wash between love and mourning.
Author: Anne Fadiman Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0374533407 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 370
Book Description
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child.
Author: Karen Glumm Publisher: University Press of America ISBN: 9780761835653 Category : Children of alcoholics Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
As a graduate student, Karen Glumm experienced two grand mal seizures and was placed on medication. After months of reading, Glumm realized she had experienced partial seizures as a child, but had accepted them as a regular fact of life and not a serious medical condition. This acceptance stemmed from her alcoholic parent's coping strategy of hiding deficiencies and deviations from normal behavior in order to continue drinking. Glumm mirrored this in her behavior regarding the new and confusing seizures she experienced. In this medical biography, Glumm relates her erratic behavior as an undiagnosed epileptic, a gradual acceptance of the condition, and her hard-won success as a college student and Ph.D. with humor and honesty.
Author: Jerrold E. Levy Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816548048 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
According to traditional Navajo belief, seizures are the result of sibling incest, sexual witchcraft, or possession by a supernatural spirit—associations that have kept such disorders from being known outside Navajo families. This new study is concerned with discovering why the Navajos have accorded seizures such importance and determining their meaning in the larger context of Navajo culture. The book is based on a 14-year study of some 40 Navajo patients and on an epidemiological survey among the Navajos and among three Pueblo tribes.
Author: Mervyn J. Eadie Publisher: John Libbey Eurotext ISBN: Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 260
Book Description
Uses current knowledge of epilepsy and epileptic seizures as a yardstick against which to interpret the thinking of the past. Attempts to trace the development of thought about individual aspects of the understanding of epilepsy one after the other and on a chronological basis.
Author: Melissa Pritchard Publisher: Zoland Books, Incorporated ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
Twelve stories on people in search of fulfillment. In The Order of Goodness, a woman finds it in sleeping with a teenage neighbor, in Sweet Feed a cook in preparing a gourmet meal for a man on death row.
Author: Joanne Curry Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1467812471 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 100
Book Description
Epilepsy: It is not just about having seizures and when the seizures are over with, and all of a suddenly everything is okay. Comedians are continuously cracking jokes about epileptics and seizures. I had status epilepsy (the worse kind as they occur more often). It is more than anything, a lack of misunderstanding of the medical illness and all its torments that come along with the package. I want to be able to help epileptics (in anyway I can) and get a lot of doctors and others to realize how serious epilepsy is. Please understand I’m not just mocking all doctors or people, I only mean about what I went through. After 46 years of experiencing seizures, I pretty much know of what I’m writing about. With short-term memory loss and brain damage from the multitude of seizures I had, I did the best I could (I’ll reveal more personal stuff later on). My goal is not to see if I can write the great all-American novel or even a large book. My goal is to get my messages across to the whole world (I want to be proof that other epileptics might need to get other people to understand some of what an epileptic goes through in this life).
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