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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Pocket | | Edition: | 1st Thus.st Edition | | Page Count: | 320 Pages | | Publication Date: | January 06, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 603rd |
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Product Description
Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. 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... Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind, Ordinary People and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 281 reviews)
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an amazing book by Sheri Radford (Vancouver, BC, Canada)  5 Stars
November 26, 2009
This book moved me, depressed me, scared the heck out of me, and kept me reading long past bedtime. It can't have been easy to delve inside a deteriorating mind, and I applaud the author's courage to do so. I eagerly await this author's next novel.
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The most realistic novel I've ever read on such a topic by Lillian M. Matthews 5 Stars
November 25, 2009
Lisa Genova brings a common illness and its effects right into your deepest feelings. Alzheimer's is frightening. Many of us know of someone that is afflicted by it but cannot sense how it affects the patient and everyone around them. I am glad I read it. It is a novel that is instructive and can prepare anyone for the devastating reality of this disease. I recommend it to anyone that is interested in learning more about how the disease works on the patient and the family.
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Read this book!!!!! by Mary Jo Otoole (Pittsburgh, PA) 5 Stars
November 23, 2009
I loved this book!!! My Mother-in-Law had EOAD, and I was the main caregiver....she was 66 years old when she died and only had been ill for a little over a year. The insight into what she may have been thinking and feeling was overwhelming for me...I wished I had read this book while she had the disease..so many parts of it rang so true for me, it was like re-visiting that time of my life....and even though it was hard being her caregiver I wouldn't trade those days with her for anything and wish I had known her as well before she got sick! I want my husband's entire family to read this book!!! As well as my own sisters, children and friends!!! You'll love it because you love Alice!!!
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Still Alice by J. White (New Zealand) 5 Stars
November 21, 2009
I am so affected by Lisa Genova's beautiful book Still Alice - it gave me a so much better understanding of Alzheimers - I am recommending it to everyone I know. I have no family members affected by this illness, but now I 'get' in some way, the hardships involved. This is an intelligent, informative and gripping book, one of the very best I have ever read. I am sure it has done much already to raise awareness, strengthen compassion, and to encourage people to help, and will continue to do so as word about it spreads. Jude (New Zealand).
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GREAT!! by J. Lobb (Springfield, IL, US) 5 Stars
November 19, 2009
This is one of the best depictions of a person with Alzheimer's I've ever read. I felt as if the author knew, and was describing, my mother. This novel is a tremendous outreach vehicle to bring more awareness to the general public in what Alzheimer's entails, which is so much more than simply "forgetfulness"!! This is truly a riveting story which also illustrates the complex, harrowing disease known as Alzheimer's. Congratulations to the author.
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