The man who forgot how to read
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Howard Engel ; afterword by Oliver Sacks.
Contributors: Sacks, Oliver.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Toronto, ON
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780002007146
Subjects: Engel, Howard, -- 1931-  -- Health; Agraphia -- Patients -- Biography; Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients -- Canada -- Biography; Authors, Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "One hot midsummer morning, crime novelist Howard Engel picked up his newspaper from his front step and discovered he could no longer read it. The letters had mysteriously jumbled themselves into something that looked like Cyrillic one moment and Korean the next. While he slept, Engel had experienced a stroke and now suffered from a rare condition called alexia sine agraphia, meaning that while he could still write, he could no longer read"--Jacket flap.