TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mol,Oliver
TI  - Train lord
SN  - 9780241525067 (hbk.) :
AV  - PR9619.4 
U1  - 920 MOL 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - UK
PB  - Michael Joseph
KW  - Mol, Oliver
KW  - Authors, Australian
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Train attendants
KW  - Australia
KW  - Sydney (N.S.W.)
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Biography & non-fiction prose
KW  - thema
KW  - Memoirs
KW  - Autobiography: general
KW  - Self-help & personal development
KW  - Trains & railways: general interest
KW  - Biography: general
KW  - Coping with personal problems
KW  - Travel & holiday
KW  - Travel & holiday guides
KW  - Pain & pain management
KW  - Coping with disability
KW  - Australasia, Oceania & other land areas
N2  - The astonishing true story of trust, pain, becoming lost, and finding a way back to yourself despite it allWhat happens when a writer can no longer write? What happens when pain is so intense that you question who you are and whether you can bear it any longer?Oliver Mol was a successful, clever, healthy twenty-five-year old. Then one day the migraine started.For ten months, the pain was constant, exacerbated by writing, reading, using computers, looking at phones or anything with a screen. Slowly he became a writer who could no longer write, and a person who could no longer communicate with the modern world. In literature, and life, Oliver began to disappear.His doctors couldn't figure out how to fix him. He suffered a breakdown. And one evening, high on painkillers, Oliver Googled the only thing he could think of: 'full-time job, no experience, Sydney'. An ad for a train guard appeared and, desperate, Oliver took it.For two years Oliver watched others live their lives, observing the minutia and intimacy of strangers brought together briefly and connected by the steady march of time. Exquisitely written and bravely told, Train Lord is a searingly personal yet universal book, which asks what happens when your sense of self is suddenly destroyed, and how you get it back
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