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Consciousness.
Brain -- Tumors -- Patients -- Canada -- Biography.
Fathers and sons -- Ontario -- Toronto.
Authors, Canadian -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Akler, Howard, 1969-
Akler, Howard, 1969-
Consciousness.
Brain -- Tumors -- Patients -- Canada -- Biography.
Fathers and sons -- Ontario -- Toronto.
Authors, Canadian -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Men of action /
Howard
Akler
.
by
Akler
,
Howard
,
1969-
Coach House Books, 2015.
Call #:
153 A315m
Subjects
Akler
,
Howard
,
1969-
Consciousness.
Brain -- Tumors -- Patients -- Canada -- Biography.
Fathers and sons -- Ontario -- Toronto.
Authors, Canadian -- 21st century -- Biography.
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9781552453179 (pbk.)
1552453170 (pbk.)
Description:
123 pages : portraits ; 19 cm.
Summary:
"After his father, Saul, undergoes brain surgery and slips into a coma,
Howard
Akler
begins to reflect on Saul's life, the complicated texture of consciousness, and his own struggles with writing and his unpredictable mind. With echoes of Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude and Philip Roth's Patrimony , Men of Action treads the line between memoir and meditation, and is at once elegiac, spare, andprofoundly intimate. Toronto writer
Howard
Akler
is the author of The City Man."--Provided by publisher.
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Memoirs.
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