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Description for Take Me Home
hardcover. When Jonathan Taylor was eight he began to find his father puzzling. Doctors diagnosed Parkinson's disease, and Jonathan became one of his father's carers, taking it in turn with his family to look after him. This is the story of a son's struggle for recognition from a father who is being transformed mentally and physically by the disease. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BTP; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 137 x 28. Weight in Grams: 372. Good clean copy with light nicks and tears to dust jacket
When Jonathan Taylor was eight he began to find his father puzzling. The first thing that happened was that his father couldn't remember Jonathan's sister's name. Then he began to shake, to drive badly, to forget who or where he was, and to mistake his son for someone else entirely. 'Help, help, help, help, help', his father would say, on and on, but there seemed to be no helping him. Doctors diagnosed Parkinson's disease and dementia, and Jonathan gradually became one of his father's carers, taking it in turn with his family to look after him for the next thirteen ... Read more
When Jonathan Taylor was eight he began to find his father puzzling. The first thing that happened was that his father couldn't remember Jonathan's sister's name. Then he began to shake, to drive badly, to forget who or where he was, and to mistake his son for someone else entirely. 'Help, help, help, help, help', his father would say, on and on, but there seemed to be no helping him. Doctors diagnosed Parkinson's disease and dementia, and Jonathan gradually became one of his father's carers, taking it in turn with his family to look after him for the next thirteen ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Granta Books London
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781862079557
SKU
KMO0001219
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Ref
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About Jonathan Taylor
Jonathan Taylor is author of the memoir Take Me Home: Parkinson's, My Father, Myself (Granta Books, 2007). He is also Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at De Montfort University, and co-director of arts organisation and small publisher Crystal Clear Creators. His articles, stories, poems and reviews have appeared in newspapers and magazines including Times Literary Supplement, Guardian Family, Times Higher, ... Read more
Reviews for Take Me Home
Very moving and beautifully written
John Bayley A brave and unsentimental book
Diana Athill Taylor...is a spirited writer, blessed with an unusually keen sense of curiosity
Guardian
Taylor's account... turns its back on the clichés of the genre to which it seems initially to belong...Instead, there is black comedy to be extracted from the story....Taylor's willingness ... Read more
John Bayley A brave and unsentimental book
Diana Athill Taylor...is a spirited writer, blessed with an unusually keen sense of curiosity
Guardian
Taylor's account... turns its back on the clichés of the genre to which it seems initially to belong...Instead, there is black comedy to be extracted from the story....Taylor's willingness ... Read more