The man who forgot how to read: a memoir
Biography, Literature biography, Science and medicine biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Health and medicine
Human-narrated audio
Summary
One midsummer morning, crime novelist Howard Engel picked up his newspaper and discovered that he could no longer read it. While he slept, Engel had experienced a stroke and now suffered from a rare condition called alexia sine agraphia, meaning… that he could write, but not read. As well, his memory failed him, he had trouble remembering where things went, apples and grapefruit looked the same, and names and places eluded him. Engel began learning to read again, and even wrote a Benny Cooperman mystery based on his own experiences. 2007.