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24
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
31/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Caroline Crampton
Publisher:
Ecco
Date:
April 23, 2024
Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a biography of hypochondria.
What The Reviewers Say
A Body Made of Glass oscillates between lengthy paragraphs of scholarship and periods of self-scrutiny, including therapy.
A Body Made of Glass is a product of impressively thorough research, but it is sometimes circuitous and digressive to the point of frenzy. It blends memoir and literary criticism with micro-histories of subjects of varying relevance.
Blending memoir and cultural history, it is lucid, broad in scope, full of nuanced reflection.
Fascinating and intelligent... suffused with the intensity of feeling that hypochondria ignites.
