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Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives
Brian Dillon
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Description for Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives
Paperback.
'It's so good that, after reading it, I needed a lie-down' - Hilary Mantel, Guardian Books of the Year
Brian Dillon looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Daniel Paul Schreber, Alice James, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol - and what their lives tell us about the way the mind works with, and against, the body. His findings are stimulating and surprising, and the stories he tells are often moving, sometimes hilarious, and always gripping. With a new afterword on Michael Jackson.
Brian Dillon's first book, In the Dark Room, won the Irish Book Award for Non-fiction in 2006. He lives in Canterbury.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd London
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141044057
SKU
V9780141044057
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Brian Dillon
Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. He writes on the arts, books and culture for a number of publications. His first book, In the Dark Room, won the Irish Book Award for Non-fiction in 2006. He lives in Canterbury.
Reviews for Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives
It's so good that, after reading it, I needed a lie-down.
Hilary Mantel
Guardian Books of the Year
A brilliant series of portraits
Observer
Fascinating ... Written with great elegance and shrewd understanding
William Boyd
Guardian Books of the Year
Illuminating, humane and beautiful
Independent
Ingenious and intriguing
Guardian
Brian Dillon is a superbly careful writer. ... [This book] will delight, move and horrify any of the millions of us who, like the late Spike Milligan, have at one time or another contemplated having "I told you I was ill" inscribed on our gravestones.
Sam Leith
Daily Mail
A mini-masterpiece
Louise Carpenter
Observer
Excellent
Sunday Times
Strangely delightful ... Dillon's book is constantly intelligent
Scotland on Sunday
You don't need to be a hypochondriac to enjoy this series of discursive, insightful essays that are full of quirky details and fascinating anecdotes
Mail on Sunday
Illuminating
Philip Hoare
Sunday Telegraph
Eloquent and incisive
Boyd Tonkin
Independent
Dillon's mind is as interesting as those of the people he writes about ... bizarrely unputdownable
Eileen Battersby
Irish Times
Hilary Mantel
Guardian Books of the Year
A brilliant series of portraits
Observer
Fascinating ... Written with great elegance and shrewd understanding
William Boyd
Guardian Books of the Year
Illuminating, humane and beautiful
Independent
Ingenious and intriguing
Guardian
Brian Dillon is a superbly careful writer. ... [This book] will delight, move and horrify any of the millions of us who, like the late Spike Milligan, have at one time or another contemplated having "I told you I was ill" inscribed on our gravestones.
Sam Leith
Daily Mail
A mini-masterpiece
Louise Carpenter
Observer
Excellent
Sunday Times
Strangely delightful ... Dillon's book is constantly intelligent
Scotland on Sunday
You don't need to be a hypochondriac to enjoy this series of discursive, insightful essays that are full of quirky details and fascinating anecdotes
Mail on Sunday
Illuminating
Philip Hoare
Sunday Telegraph
Eloquent and incisive
Boyd Tonkin
Independent
Dillon's mind is as interesting as those of the people he writes about ... bizarrely unputdownable
Eileen Battersby
Irish Times