- Biography, Cerebrovascular Accident, Cerebrovascular disease, Health
The author, former editor of French Elle magazine, describes the rare stroke to the brain stem that left his mind intact in a nearly totally paralyzed body.
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Contemporary, contemplative, earnest and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Jean-Dominique Bauby
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 142
- Publisher
- Distributed by Random House, Wheeler Pub., A.A. Knopf
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English, Chinese, French, Korean
- ISBN
- 9780375701214
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