"A most remarkable book.
A Brain Wider Than the Sky is learned, witty, allusive, and poetic -- and migraine becomes, for Levy, a window into the whole landscape of body and mind, health and disease, and the sheer complexity of being alive." -- Oliver Sacks, author of
Migraine and
Musicophilia"This is a wonderful hybrid of a book about that most metaphysical of pains, the migraine headache. Part memoir, part historical inquiry, part philosophical meditation,
A Brain Wider Than the Sky takes its reader on a physical and psychological journey and shows us that beauty and tranquility can be found in the least likely of places." -- Ann Packer, author of
Songs With out Words and
The Dive from Clausen's Pier
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
"A most remarkable book.
A Brain Wider Than the Sky is learned, witty, allusive, and poetic -- and migraine becomes, for Levy, a window into the whole landscape of body and mind, health and disease, and the sheer complexity of being alive." -- Oliver Sacks, author of
Migraine and
Musicophilia"This is a wonderful hybrid of a book about that most metaphysical of pains, the migraine headache. Part memoir, part historical inquiry, part philosophical meditation,
A Brain Wider Than the Sky takes its reader on a physical and psychological journey and shows us that beauty and tranquility can be found in the least likely of places."-- Ann Packer, author of
Songs With out Words and
The Dive from Clausen's Pier"Andrew Levy has turned migraines into a window on the human condition. His epic, erudite, obsessive, despairingly isolated battle with this half-mystical demon, ranging across civilization but always ending up in a dark room, has eerie resonance for those who do not suffer -- until the surprise ending, whereupon we see the common ground."-- Suzannah Lessard, author of
Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family"[Levy] collects headaches like rare butterflies, and he has a rare, possibly singular gift for fitting words to them...His eloquence is all the more remarkable because migraines are a sinkhole for language....encourages us to generalize from his example to take in the true dimensions of what is still a largely silent epidemic."-- Lev Grossman,
Time"Andrew Levy's beautiful memoir,
A Brain Wider Than the Sky, is welcome relief....an affecting, readable account of the pain of migraine and the weird wonder of it. Levy seamlessly glides from the experience of his own suffering to broader neurological and historical realms...[his] prose shines...beautiful description and compelling research...unflinching self-scrutiny is what elevates A Brain Wider Than the Sky beyond many less successful memoirs of illness....the irrefutable reality is that Levy's suffering is not his alone, and the consequences of that fact are where the heart of this fine book lies."-- Christine Montross,
The Washington Post"I love this book. It's wonderful, dangerous, compelling, nerve-rattling, and absolutely brilliant. It is intimate and yet of enormous scope, it is funny and yet deeply vulnerable, and, most important, it is just so smart as it portrays both the larger public history of migraine and the intensely personal history of Levy's own experiences with this debilitating and ongoing neurological event."-- Fred Leebron, author of
In the Middle of All This and
Five Figures"[Andrew Levy] produces a dynamic portrayal of the migraineurs' world, an ominous alternative universe where the subtlest sight, sound, smell or innocent event can trigger an attack....Sufferers will empathize; most general readers will sympathize. An impressive meditation on a devastating affliction."--
Kirkus
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
