After a near-fatal illness that cost $21,911.32 and 160 days in three hospitals, Eric Hodgins might pardonably have tried to forget it. Instead, he set out to write off his losses. The result, Episode Report on the Accident Inside My Skull (Atheneum; $5), is Journalist Hodgins' wry, spry, keenly observed sto ry of a stroke (cerebrovascular accident) and how it has affected his life for the past four years.
Painless & Terrible. His story begins on the night of Jan. 8, 1960, when Hodgins was alone in his apartment. One moment he was dictating a telegram on the telephone; then...
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