In this selection from The Body, his compulsively readable and bestselling owner’s manual to the human body, Bill Bryson introduces us to the mysterious, and often devastating, world of disease.
Written with extraordinary insight and filled with remarkable facts, When Things Go Wrong deepens our understanding of the maladies that afflict us--what they are and how they work.
A Vintage Short.
Praise for Bill Bryson's The Body:
"Glorious... Astonishing.... From up to down and from miraculous operational efficiencies to malignant mayhem when things go awry.... You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design." —The Washington Post
"Fascinating." —NPR
"A directory of wonders.... Extraordinary.... A tour of the minuscule.... Wry, companionable, avuncular and always lucid...[The Body] could stand as an ultimate prescription for life." —The Guardian
"Arresting.... Bryson is adept at finding the bizarre and the arcane in his subject matter.... Amazing." —USA Today
In this selection from The Body, his compulsively readable and bestselling owner’s manual to the human body, Bill Bryson introduces us to the mysterious, and often devastating, world of disease.
Written with extraordinary insight and filled with remarkable facts, When Things Go Wrong deepens our understanding of the maladies that afflict us--what they are and how they work.
A Vintage Short.
Praise
Praise for Bill Bryson's The Body:
"Glorious... Astonishing.... From up to down and from miraculous operational efficiencies to malignant mayhem when things go awry.... You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design." —The Washington Post
"Fascinating." —NPR
"A directory of wonders.... Extraordinary.... A tour of the minuscule.... Wry, companionable, avuncular and always lucid...[The Body] could stand as an ultimate prescription for life." —The Guardian
"Arresting.... Bryson is adept at finding the bizarre and the arcane in his subject matter.... Amazing." —USA Today
