Still Alice
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1501107739
ISBN 13
9781501107733
Category
Fiction/Littérature
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Publication Year
2009
Publisher
Pages
387
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Abstract
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what's it's like to literally lose your mind...
Number of Copies
5
