U-Turn What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life?

by Grierson, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9781582345871
• ISBN10: 1582345872
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-18
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Summary

In this illuminating, thought-provoking book, Bruce Grierson examines the major decisions that suddenly reverse the courses of our lives: the moment when a doctor quits his job to become a poet, or when a man discovers he wants to be a woman. U-Turn reminds us that our decisions spring not only from the brain but from the gut, and that these significant and often mysterious urges may determine our futures. Engaging and sharply insightful, this book is both a tribute and an investigation, a look at a phenomenon as complex and fascinating as we are. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Bruce Grierson has been nominated for eight Canadian National MagazineAwards, and is the coauthor of Culture Jam. He lives in Vancouver with his wife and daughter.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Burning Spear	p. 11
The Time of Reckoning	p. 25
The Likely Candidate	p. 43
The Condemned Twin	p. 64
The Revolutionary Evolution	p. 96
The Crying Baby	p. 120
The Change of Heart	p. 131
The Kandinsky Decision	p. 154
The Road to Damascus	p. 170
The Good Hypocrite	p. 201
The Thought Experiment	p. 223
The Parole Board's Dilemma	p. 245
The Earth As Seen from Space	p. 271
Notes	p. 289
Selected Bibliography	p. 315
Acknowledgments	p. 325
Index	p. 327
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