Description
A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from -- memory.
At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future. June is forty-eight, a writer and teacher, and over the following decade watches as her husband changes -- in interests, goals, and behaviour -- until Tony has a fall, ending the life they had known.
A diagnosis is seven years away, yet the signs of Alzheimer's are all around. A suitcase Tony packs for a trip is jammed with four umbrellas, a visual symbol of cognitive looping. But how far back do these signs go? The couple starts probing the past and finding answers. This is not an old person's disease.
Author: June Hutton, Tony Wanless
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 11/10/2020
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781459747791
ISBN10: 1459747798
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Medical (Incl. Patients)
- Health & Fitness | Diseases | Alzheimer's & Dementia
- Medical | Health Care Delivery
At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future. June is forty-eight, a writer and teacher, and over the following decade watches as her husband changes -- in interests, goals, and behaviour -- until Tony has a fall, ending the life they had known.
A diagnosis is seven years away, yet the signs of Alzheimer's are all around. A suitcase Tony packs for a trip is jammed with four umbrellas, a visual symbol of cognitive looping. But how far back do these signs go? The couple starts probing the past and finding answers. This is not an old person's disease.
Author: June Hutton, Tony Wanless
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 11/10/2020
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781459747791
ISBN10: 1459747798
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Medical (Incl. Patients)
- Health & Fitness | Diseases | Alzheimer's & Dementia
- Medical | Health Care Delivery
About the Author
June Hutton has written two novels and facilitates writing workshops at a treatment centre for addiction. Tony Wanless worked for a variety of newspapers across Canada, including the Financial Post and the Province, and is taking part in a study on Alzheimer's at UBC Hospital. They live in Vancouver.