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Twitch And Shout: A Touretter’s Tale
Lowell Handler
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Description for Twitch And Shout: A Touretter’s Tale
paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32ill. BIC Classification: BG; VFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 134 x 215 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
The remarkable memoir of a Touretter’s journey of self-discovery—now back in print!
Lowell Handler has Tourette’s syndrome, a disorder characterized by exaggerated facial tics, sudden jerking movements of the body and limbs, and explosive public outbursts, usually in the form of expletives and racial epithets. Although he is a successful and acclaimed photojournalist, Handler has often seen himself as an outsider—a social outcast. With courage and candor, he recalls the difficulties he suffered growing up, the confusion he experienced when doctors misdiagnosed his bizarre behavior as a psychological aberration, and finally how, restless and despairing, he embarked on a quest ... Read moreProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816644513
SKU
V9780816644513
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About Lowell Handler
Lowell Handler is a photojournalist whose work has been published in, among others, Life, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, and the Sunday Times Magazine (London). He served as associate producer and narrator of the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary Twitch and Shout, an exploration of Tourette’s syndrome. He he is on the tenured faculty of the Department of Performing, Visual Arts, and Communications at Dutchess Community College ... Read more
Reviews for Twitch And Shout: A Touretter’s Tale
"With candor and humor, Handler describes the people and places he saw, touched, loved, and hated as he set out to discover himself, armed with a camera, a keen sense of the real, and the Tourette’s Syndrome."—SciTech Book News "The first memoir by someone with Tourette’s syndrome . . . It is a mind-bending account of a mind-boggling affliction."—Entertainment ... Read more