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Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
Sonya Huber
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Description for Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
Paperback. Series: American Lives. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; MMBP; VFJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 12. Weight in Grams: 263.
Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood and sometimes barely managed. Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System is a collection of literary and experimental essays about living with chronic pain. Sonya Huber moves away from a linear narrative to step through the doorway into pain itself, into that strange, unbounded reality. Although the essays are personal in nature, this collection is not ... Read more
Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood and sometimes barely managed. Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System is a collection of literary and experimental essays about living with chronic pain. Sonya Huber moves away from a linear narrative to step through the doorway into pain itself, into that strange, unbounded reality. Although the essays are personal in nature, this collection is not ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
204
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
American Lives
Condition
New
Weight
263g
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803299917
SKU
V9780803299917
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About Sonya Huber
Sonya Huber is an associate professor of English at Fairfield University. She is the author of Opa Nobody (Nebraska, 2008), Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir (Nebraska, 2010), and The Evolution of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Reviews for Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
“Sonya Huber works magic by articulating the indescribable. With her lyrically written and witty account, she better describes her own pain experience than a patient rating scale of 1 to 10 ever could.”—Paula Kamen, author of All in My Head “This is an important book, a necessary book, a book that, in the right hands, could change how our ... Read more