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The memory palace
Title:
The memory palace
Author:
Bartók, Mira.
Personal Author:
ISBN:
9781439183311
Publication Information:
New York : Free Press, c2011.
Physical Description:
305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
The order of things -- The subterranean world -- Medusa -- Passion flower -- The eye of Goya -- Cave girl -- My year with Audubon -- The vigilance of Dolphins -- Changelings -- The museum of indelible things -- Death, the rider -- The new world -- Forgeries and illuminations -- Galilee -- Rabbits -- Oracle bone -- Palimpsest -- In the palace of Kalachakra -- Into the land of birds and fire -- A cabinet of wonders.
Abstract:
The daughter of piano prodigy Norma Herr describes how she and her sister were forced by their mother's violent schizophrenic episodes to discontinue contact with her until the author's debilitating injury changed her sense of the world and enabled a healing reconciliation.
Summary:
The daughter of piano prodigy Norma Herr describes how she and her sister were forced by their mother's violent schizophrenic episodes to discontinue contact with her until the author's debilitating injury changed her sense of the world and enabled a healing reconciliation.
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