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Before electricity carved its blue path toward me, before the negative charge shot down from cloud to ground...before air expanded and contracted producing loud pressure pulses I could t hear because I was already dead, I had been walking. So opens Gretel Ehrlich's absorbing account of being struck by lightning. Only when she fell to the ground, her head and body hitting on rock, was she jolted back to consciousness, back to life. In this astonishing chronicle of her experience and of the physical, psychological, and spiritual consequences of the encounter, the author turns her acute naturalist's eye on herself and on the natural world of the body to understand exactly what happened when lightning struck her. Woven into the narrative of her recovery is an examination of the heart - medical, religious, and cultural: There is the path of healing that she traveled t only with the requisite cardiologist but, to quite amazing effect, with her dogs as well. And finally, there is water, and the ways in which, in its contemplation and its immersion, she learned how fire can be extinguished. A Match to the Heart is a stunning work of observation and synthesis: bringing together the most minute self-exploratory and an enlarging, illuminating vision of the world.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
ISBN-100140179372
ISBN-139780140179378
eBay Product ID (ePID)106042856
Product Key Features
SubjectBiography: General
LanguageEnglish
AuthorGretel Ehrlich
FormatPaperback
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication29/06/1995
Place of PublicationLondon
Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
Out-Of-Print Date25/10/2004