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Not Even Past

Jacob Troublefield

Winner of 2012 Undergraduate Essay Contest: The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt (2010)

December 9, 2012

The Memory Chalet stands apart from most memoirs. Written by Tony Judt, renowned imageBritish historian, best known for his work "Postwar" (2005), after becoming quadriplegic as a result of Lou Gehrig’s disease, the memoir began as a simple memory exercise meant to distract himself from the discomforts of insomnia.

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