Life on Delay
Making Peace with a Stutter
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: x, 255 pages ; 22 cm
"An intimate and revealing memoir of a lifelong struggle to speak"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Nothing in your hands -- Dead air -- The look -- Balls and strikes -- The fluency factory -- Hard to explain -- Joe -- Liquid courage -- Black waves -- Kairos -- Penn State, part 1 -- A hand full of wheel -- Penn State, part 2 -- "Sir! What language do you speak?" -- One-way west -- Borrowed time -- "I kind of leave my body" -- Pink slips -- The locked box -- "Our bodies betray us -- The Biden letters -- "It just didn't deter me" -- "A softer place to land" -- "There is no yet" -- Mom and dad -- If not for you -- Friends -- Brothers.
Subjects:
Hendrickson, John (Atlantic senior editor) -- Health.
Stutterers -- Biography.
Stuttering.
Stutterers -- Maryland -- Takoma Park -- Biography.
Hendrickson, John (Atlantic senior editor) -- Health.
Stutterers -- Biography.
Stuttering.
Stutterers -- Maryland -- Takoma Park -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780593319130
Availability | |||
---|---|---|---|
Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Hendrickson, John | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Biography | In |
"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.