{"product_id":"reversals-a-personal-account-of-victory-over-dyslexia-revised","title":"Reversals: A Personal Account of Victory Over Dyslexia (Revised)","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eReversals: A Personal Account of Victory Over Dyslexia (Revised)\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eEileen M Simpson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374523169\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1998\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReissue\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e246\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThere was something wrong with my brain. What had previously been a shadowy suspicion that hovered on the edge of consciousness became certain knowledge the year I was nine and entered fourth grade. I seemed to be like other children, but I was not like them; I could not learn to read or spell. \u003cbr\u003eIn this first account of what it is like to grow up dyslexic, Eileen Simpson vividly recreates the frightening world of a child living in the limbo of illiteracy. Simpson's lack of reading skills so exasperated her teachers and relatives that they began to think she was mentally retarded. She could get lost walking to the grocery store; at times she felt as if she had no control over her speech. It was not until she was twenty-two that her future husband, the poet John Berryman, finally named her mysterious ailment. \u003cbr\u003eSimpson intersperses her narrative with nontechnical explanations of dyslexia and what is being done to treat it. But despite growing public awareness and advances in research, dyslexia remains a frustrating and frightening disorder.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Reversals: A Personal Account of Victory Over Dyslexia (Revised) | Eileen M Simpson | Paperback | 9780374523169 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks C 1757978","offer_id":49178377617560,"sku":"1757978","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71jSgDK9jxL.jpg?v=1780071005","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/reversals-a-personal-account-of-victory-over-dyslexia-revised","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}