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Item Description
Still Alice Book Lisa Genova Alzheimer's Early Onset
Synopsis
Drawing
from her long career as a Harvard-based neuroscientist, Lisa Genova, in
her debut novel, depicts the inevitable hardships of early onset
Alzheimer's disease. Alice, a renowned Harvard professor at the height
of her career, begins to experience little slips of memory, which
eventually are identified as the beginnings of her terrible, gradual
descent into the darkness of Alzheimer's. Genova's expertise on the
subject is on display throughout, as she alternates scientific
discussion of the disease with the heart-wrenching details of watching
a beloved family member endure mental disintegration.
Size
Length:
292 pages
Height:
8.3 in.
Width:
5.8 in.
Thickness:
1.0 in.
Weight:
12.8 oz.
Publisher's Note
Feeling
at the top of her game when she is suddenly diagnosed with early onset
Alzheimer's Disease, Harvard psychologist Alice Howland struggles to
find meaning and purpose in her everyday life as her concept of self
gradually slips away. A first novel. Simultaneous. 200,000 first
printing.
Industry reviews
"STILL ALICE, although a novel, reads like a gripping memoir of a woman in her prime watching the life she once knew fade away." (01/07/2009)
Condition: Near Mint.
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