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The Answer to the Riddle is Me
David S. Maclean
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Description for The Answer to the Riddle is Me
Paperback. IMAGINE WAKING UP IN A TRAIN STATION IN INDIA WITH NO IDEA WHO YOU ARE OR HOW YOU GOT THERE - 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. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 276.
In 2002, at twenty-eight years old, 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 anti-malarial medication he was taking. Upon his return to the States, he struggled to piece together the fragments ... Read more
In 2002, at twenty-eight years old, 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 anti-malarial medication he was taking. Upon his return to the States, he struggled to piece together the fragments ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Short Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907595165
SKU
9781907595165
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About David S. Maclean
David Stuart MacLean is a PEN/American Award-winning writer whose work has appeared in Ploughshares and on the radio program This American Life. He has a PhD from the University of Houston and is a co-founder of the Poison Pen Reading Series. He lives in Chicago.
Reviews for The Answer to the Riddle is Me
Mesmerizing - Written in vivid, blooming detail. Brilliant and painful and hilarious. A gripping medical mystery, a heartwarming personal journey, and a chilling indictment of the commonly prescribed drug that upended MacLean's life - but left his superb literary skills very much intact. A who can break your heart, terrify you, and make you laugh all on the same page. ... Read more