The finch in my brain
Subtitle: how I forgot how to read but found how to live
By: Martino Sclavi ; foreword by Russell Brand
Contributors: Brand, Russell, 1975- writer of foreword
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781473649712
Subjects: Brain; Patients; Health; Cancer; Motion picture producers and directors; Family relationships; Biography
Other titles: How I forgot how to read but found how to live
Description: "When film producer Martino Sclavi began experiencing intense headaches, he attributed them to his frenetic lifestyle. As it turned out, he had grade 4 brain cancer and was given 18 months to live. After undergoing brain surgery--while awake--Martino found he had lost the ability to recognise words. His response was to close his eyes and begin to move his fingers across the keyboard to write this, an account of life before diagnosis and since. Defying all predictions Martino is still very much alive, words read out to him by the monotone of a computerised voice he calls Alex. But he must now live in a new way. This book--that he has written but cannot read--charts the effects of his experience: on his relationship with his young son, his marriage, his work and with himself. In the wake of his illness, everything must be reconfigured and Martino is made to question the habits, dreams and beliefs of his old life and confront the present. What he finds is strange and beautiful. Searching for the words between life and death, Sclavi shows that with determination and a subtle, persistent sense of humour, it is possible to change the story of our lives"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Subtitle from dust jacket.