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Shadows bright as glass : the remarkable story of one man's journey from brain trauma to artistic triumph / Amy Ellis Nutt.

by Nutt, Amy Ellis.

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New York : Free Press, c2011.

Sarkin, Jon, 1953- -- Health.

Sarkin, Jon, 1953- -- Psychology.

Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.

Brain -- Hemorrhage -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.

Artists -- Psychology.

9781439143100 (hardcover : alk. paper) :

1439143102 (hardcover : alk. paper)

9781439143117 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)

1439143110 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)

x, 272 p. ; 24 cm.

1st Free Press hardcover ed.

Thin as a thread -- A thousand screaming baboons -- Rolling the dice -- Six cups of fluid and tissue -- Building a life -- Code blue -- The mechanical mind -- Two halves -- Absolve me -- Puzzle pieces -- Adrift -- A haunted house -- The ghost and the ice pick -- A double consciousness -- The accidental artist -- Proceed with abandon -- Bridging the imaginable -- Art boy -- The inner savant -- Blindsight -- Seeing is believing -- Senses and sensibilities -- The imagination instinct -- Ghosts of the present -- The extended self -- Boltflash -- Working in the dark -- Things speak for themselves -Richard's gift -- Infinity on trial -- The loquacious brain -- Finding Tommy -- Best friends -- Unbound -- Flawed words, stubborn sounds.

Alternates descriptions of the most cutting-edge brain science with the story of Jon Sarkin, a mild-mannered chiropractor who, after suffering a massive stroke, became a manic, volatile, and brilliant artist.

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