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Also by Jimmy Breslin:

The Good Rat, February 2008
Hardcover
The Church That Forgot Christ, July 2004
Hardcover
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?, March 2003
Paperback
I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me, September 1997
Paperback
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, September 1997
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I WANT TO THANK MY BRAIN FOR REMEMBERING ME
By: Jimmy Breslin

A Memoir

Back Bay
September 1997
On Sale: September 1, 1997
224 pages
ISBN: 0316118796
EAN: 9780316118798
Paperback
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Non-Fiction Memoir

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jimmy Breslin reflects on his life after surviving a brain aneurysm in I Want To Thank My Brain For Remembering Me. From his childhood in Queens, to covering stories on Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and the Beatles, to his family and reverence for Catholicism, to the discovery, by "pure luck," that something was wrong, Breslin recalls the events and people of his past and the meaning they have for him in the present. This is his personal tribute to the magic of medicine and the fragility of all life. As Breslin concludes after the success of his operation, "things turned out pretty well."

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