The Theft of Memory: Losing My Father, One Day at a Time
National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation s poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father s life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of the brain...
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National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation s poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father s life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of the brain and his astonishing ability, at the onset of Alzheimer s disease, to explain the
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Format: Audio CD
ISBN:
9781504616584 (1504616588)
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease when he was 88 years old, Jonathan Kozol’s father lived to be 102. This book mostly centers on those years and the effects of the disease on his father, his mother and himself, with some back flashes to memories of his father and family life. Harry Kozol was a n...