Download A Body, Undone: Living On after Great Pain AudioBook Free
In the first evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three a long way into a 17-mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1 1,000 a long way for the driving season. She was a respectable senior teacher of British who acquired celebrated her 50th birthday per month before. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. Her chin took the full push of the blow, and her head snapped back. For the reason that instant, she was paralyzed. In A Body, Undone, Crosby sets into words a broken body that seems beyond the reach of terminology and understanding. She writes in regards to a body taken through with neurological pain, disoriented with time and space, incapacitated by paralysis and deadened sensation. To handle this foreign body, she calling upon the readerly pleasures of narrative, critical feminist and queer thinking, and the concentrated terminology of lyric poetry. Working with these resources, she recalls her 1950s tomboy ways in small-town rural Pennsylvania, and details growing in to the 1970s through radical feminism and the affirmations of gay liberation. Deeply unsentimental, Crosby communicates in unflinching prose the knowledge of "diving in to the wreck" of her body to recognize grief, and damage, but also to identify the wonder, fragility, and dependencies of all human systems. A memoir that is clearly a meditation on impairment, metaphor, gender, making love, and love, A Body, Undone is a engaging bill of living on, as Crosby rebuilds her body and fashions a life through writing, memory, and desire.
