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Still Alice
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Still Alice Paperback - 2009

by Genova, Lisa

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"Still Alice" is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by a first-time author who holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience. Reminiscent of "A Beautiful Mind" and "Ordinary People," this work packs an emotional punch.

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  • Title Still Alice
  • Author Genova, Lisa
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Gallery Books, New York
  • Date 2009-01-06
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00G9DM_ns
  • ISBN 9781439102817 / 1439102813
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.8 in (20.83 x 13.21 x 2.03 cm)
  • Reading level 860
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Mentally Challenged
  • Library of Congress subjects Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer's disease - Patients
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008030986
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

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.

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"Heartbreaking." -- The Cape Cod Chronicle

Citations

  • Booklist, 11/15/2008, Page 27
  • BookPage, 01/01/2009, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 11/01/2008, Page 1131
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/20/2008, Page 31

About the author

Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa Genova is the New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, Inside the O'Briens, and Remember. Still Alice was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, and Kristen Stewart. Lisa graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in biopsychology and holds a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University. She travels worldwide speaking about the neurological diseases she writes about and has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, Today, PBS NewsHour, CNN, and NPR. Her TED talk, What You Can Do To Prevent Alzheimer's, has been viewed over 2 million times.