Stephen McGann
Autore di Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Maladies
Opere di Stephen McGann
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1963-02-02
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- England
- Nazione (per mappa)
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Kensington, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Imperial College London (Master's|Science Communication)
- Attività lavorative
- actor
author
science communicator - Relazioni
- McGann, Joe (sibling)
McGann, Paul (sibling)
McGann, Mark (sibling)
Thomas, Heidi [1] (spouse)
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Recensioni
Liste
Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 58
- Popolarità
- #284,346
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 9
So, it took a long time for me to return to reading this account of a family's history, as seen through the lens of illness, notably hunger, pestilence, exposure, trauma, breathlessness, heart problems and necrosis.
It's a tough list of diseases to write about, but McGann does it wonderfully. That his immediate and extended family have been touched not just by Hillsborough, but also by the sinking of the Titanic and the Alder Hey children's hospital scandal, is very unfortunate, but the lessons he draws from each, and from other episodes in his family's lives, are truly inspiring and the mark of a mature and thoughtful writer.
I want to say that this is family history writ large. It is, but at the same time it is more than that: it is family history writ well.
Recommended.… (altro)