One Hundred Names for Love: A MemoirFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award It is a truism that lovers have their own language. And the love story—extending over more than forty years—of acclaimed writers Diane Ackerman and Paul West is equally a story of the love of language and its mysteries. In this heart-warming, uplifting memoir, Ackerman explores the brain’s ability to find and connect words—and of the latest science behind what happens when it fails to do so. Exposing both the terror of losing language and the giddy exhilaration of its recovery, Ackerman opens a window into the experience of wordlessness and testifies to the joyous necessity of wordplay for the health of both mind and spirit. |
Contents
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Section 20 | 198 |
Section 21 | 204 |
Section 22 | 212 |
Section 23 | 223 |
Section 24 | 234 |
Section 25 | 242 |
Section 26 | 248 |
Section 9 | 86 |
Section 10 | 94 |
Section 11 | 101 |
Section 12 | 119 |
Section 13 | 125 |
Section 14 | 140 |
Section 15 | 151 |
Section 16 | 157 |
Section 17 | 169 |
Section 18 | 177 |
Section 27 | 253 |
Section 28 | 258 |
Section 29 | 271 |
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Section 31 | 290 |
Section 32 | 296 |
Section 33 | 315 |
Section 34 | 321 |