Saving: A doctor's struggle to help his children
Autor Shane Neilsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 mai 2023
When his two-year-old develops epilepsy, Shane Neilson, a doctor, struggles to obtain timely medical care for his son. Saving shares his family's journey through the medical system, and also Shane's own personal journey as a father who feels powerless when faced with his child's illness. It entwines these stories with Shane's personal history of mental illness as a child and his professional experience with disability.
By exploring the theme of family, Shane Neilson manages to show that, over time, it is possible to not only escape the wreckage of the past, but to celebrate living with disability in the present.
"Shane Neilson is a brilliant writer . . . There hasn't been such a poignant and harrowing memoir of fatherhood in Canada since Ian Brown's The Boy in The Moon. " — Karen Connelly, author of The Change Room
"a hell of a story" — Winnipeg Free Press
"Candidly engaging, emotional poignant, impressively informative, and ultimately inspiring, Saving: A Doctor's Struggle to Help His Children is an extraordinary memoir and one that will be of extraordinary interest to anyone facing the often daunting task of securing appropriate and adequate health care for their own families." — Midwest Book Review
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781773371030
ISBN-10: 1773371037
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 155 x 228 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Great Plains Press
Colecția Great Plains Press
Locul publicării:Canada
ISBN-10: 1773371037
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 155 x 228 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Great Plains Press
Colecția Great Plains Press
Locul publicării:Canada
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Recenzii
"Shane Neilson is a brilliant writer and his work deserves to be better known. There hasn’t been such a poignant and harrowing memoir of fatherhood in Canada since Ian Brown’s The Boy in The Moon." —Karen Connelly, author of The Change Room
"Candidly engaging, emotional poignant, impressively informative, and ultimately inspiring, Saving: A Doctor's Struggle to Help His Children is an extraordinary memoir and one that will be of extraordinary interest to anyone facing the often daunting task of securing appropriate and adequate health care for their own families."
"a hell of a story"
"Shane Neilson is a brilliant writer . . . There hasn't been such a poignant and harrowing memoir of fatherhood in Canada since Ian Brown's The Boy in The Moon. "
"Shane Neilson is a brilliant writer and his work deserves to be better known. There hasn’t been such a poignant and harrowing memoir of fatherhood in Canada since Ian Brown’s The Boy in The Moon."
"Once you accept the rhythm of Neilson’s telling, it is a hell of a story."
"Neilson plays with the conventions of a memoir, blurring the distinction between imagined and real events amid ornate poetry and witty, sometimes darkly humorous references."
“Shane Neilson’s Will is bookish, brilliant, and bawdy. Stories of youth and adulthood, births and deaths, work and sport, home and hospital – made meaningful through thoughtful, intense, dramatic and soberly funny writing. There are cold hard truths here, facts about being a child and being an adult, facts of work and reflection, that are impossible to refute. What more could we want? Read this book.”
“powerful and incisive … Neilson’s style is dazzling”
“humourous and foul-mouthed and tender and uncertain and real . . . its characters stay with you, their vulnerabilities exposing your own, long after the book is finished.”
“A certain urgency and ferocity of emotion animate all of Shane Neilson’s work—poetry, fiction, memoir, and criticism—and these stories are no exception. What is new here is the range of the material, from a devastating account of a child’s grand mal seizure to a brilliant dystopic video-game fantasy.”
“A terrific collection that, I’m sure, will reward future readings.”
“The stories in Will are persuasive evidence that Shane Neilson pays the kind of attention that makes for effective medicine. His potent fiction certainly makes for essential reading.”
"Candidly engaging, emotional poignant, impressively informative, and ultimately inspiring, Saving: A Doctor's Struggle to Help His Children is an extraordinary memoir and one that will be of extraordinary interest to anyone facing the often daunting task of securing appropriate and adequate health care for their own families."
"a hell of a story"
"Shane Neilson is a brilliant writer . . . There hasn't been such a poignant and harrowing memoir of fatherhood in Canada since Ian Brown's The Boy in The Moon. "
"Shane Neilson is a brilliant writer and his work deserves to be better known. There hasn’t been such a poignant and harrowing memoir of fatherhood in Canada since Ian Brown’s The Boy in The Moon."
"Once you accept the rhythm of Neilson’s telling, it is a hell of a story."
"Neilson plays with the conventions of a memoir, blurring the distinction between imagined and real events amid ornate poetry and witty, sometimes darkly humorous references."
“Shane Neilson’s Will is bookish, brilliant, and bawdy. Stories of youth and adulthood, births and deaths, work and sport, home and hospital – made meaningful through thoughtful, intense, dramatic and soberly funny writing. There are cold hard truths here, facts about being a child and being an adult, facts of work and reflection, that are impossible to refute. What more could we want? Read this book.”
“powerful and incisive … Neilson’s style is dazzling”
“humourous and foul-mouthed and tender and uncertain and real . . . its characters stay with you, their vulnerabilities exposing your own, long after the book is finished.”
“A certain urgency and ferocity of emotion animate all of Shane Neilson’s work—poetry, fiction, memoir, and criticism—and these stories are no exception. What is new here is the range of the material, from a devastating account of a child’s grand mal seizure to a brilliant dystopic video-game fantasy.”
“A terrific collection that, I’m sure, will reward future readings.”
“The stories in Will are persuasive evidence that Shane Neilson pays the kind of attention that makes for effective medicine. His potent fiction certainly makes for essential reading.”
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