Blending personal drama with literary reflection, reportage, and medical history, the author illuminates the conflicts and controversies surrounding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and graphically depicts the way a virus re-sculpts a life.
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Encounters with the Invisible: Unseen Illness, Controversy, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Dorothy Wall
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An important investigation of a little-understood illness with much to teach doctors and patients alike. General readers will find her personal story compelling as well as beautifully told. - Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author of The Fatigue Artist Carefully researched and documented, Encounters with the Invisible takes the reader on a sweeping journey of a life, although the story rarely leaves Ms. Wall's bedroom. - K. Kimberly McCleary, President, Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome Association of America A heartfelt book about life-changing illness. - Floyd Skloot, author of in the Shadow of Memory
About Dorothy Wall
DOROTHY WALL is coauthor of Finding Your Writer's Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction. Her essays and poems have appeared in such venues as Witness, Sonora Review, Prairie Schooner, and Under the Sun. She is a writing consultant in Berkeley, California.
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GOR006377874
9780870745041
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Encounters with the Invisible: Unseen Illness, Controversy, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Dorothy Wall
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