One Hundred Names for Love

Name: One Hundred Names for Love
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Diane Ackerman
ISBN: 9781461803713

Author: Diane Ackerman

Narrator: Barbara McCulloh

Unabridged: 13 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/04/2011

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography

Synopsis

Diane Ackerman is an Orion Book Award-winning author and naturalist. In One Hundred Names for Love, Ackerman reflects on the time she spent caring for her husband, Pushcart Prize-winning novelist Paul West, after a stroke took his ability to speak. With conventional therapy not working, Ackerman decided to step in and do everything she could to help her husband find his words. "A gorgeously engrossing . and mind-opening love story ."-Booklist

About Diane Ackerman

Diane Ackerman is the bestselling author of many nonfiction books, including A Natural History of the Senses, An Alchemy of Mind, Cultivating Delight, A Natural History of Love, and The Zookeeper's Wife, winner of the 2008 Orion Book Award. In addition, she has had her poetry published in leading literary journals and in the books Origami Bridges, I Praise My Destroyer, Jaguar of Sweet Laughter, and others. Diane has received many prizes and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a John Burroughs Nature Award. She has taught at a variety of universities, including Columbia, the University of Richmond, and Cornell. Her essays about nature and human nature have appeared in the New York Times, the Smithsonian, Parade, the New Yorker, and National Geographic, and she hosted a five-hour PBS television series inspired by A Natural History of the Senses.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jenny

Since my "day job" is being an expert in diabetes, the thing that got to me most about this book was the tragically poor medical advice the author followed, especially as she prides herself on doing medical research. She lovingly feeds her husband a diet of sugar free, low fat, high carb foods which......more

Goodreads review by Craig

I'm a bit torn on my review of this book. On one hand, I found the author to be a very talented writer. Her choice of words and phrasing was unique and creative. At time abstract, I think she had some very descriptive ways of thinking of things. I also found the subject matter very interesting. This......more

Goodreads review by Ilona

A fascinating story of one man's recovery from a devastating stroke, and the changed, but still full, life he lived thereafter, told through the eyes of his wife. In fact, there are two stories here, one the surface story (recovery from stroke) and the under-story, the relationship between husband a......more