The Body Broken
A Memoir
In the tradition of William Styron’s tour de force Darkness Visible, The Body Broken is a gorgeously told and intensely moving account of one woman’s extraordinary odyssey into a life of chronic pain–and of the unyielding resilience of the human spirit.
At age nineteen, Lynne Greenberg narrowly survived a devastating car crash. When her broken neck healed–or so everyone thought–her recovery was hailed as a medical miracle and she returned to normal life. Years later, she seemed to have it all: a loving husband, two wonderful children, a peaceful home, and a richly satisfying job as a tenured poetry professor. Then, one morning, this blissful façade shattered–the pain in her neck returned in the most vicious way. A life with physical…
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March 24, 2009LYNNE GREENBERG is a professor of seventeenth-century literature at Hunter College, CUNY. She has published extensively on early modern poetry and is the author of a memoir, The Body Broken. She lives in New York City.
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Edited by Lynne Greenberg