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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.
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Lisa Genova
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 319
- Publisher
- Papierowy.Ksiezyc, Kodansha, Pocket Books
- Editions
- 48
- Language
- Japanese, Dutch, Italian, tur
- ISBN
- 9781439152751
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“Alice sat at her desk in their bedroom distracted by the sounds of John racing through each of the rooms on the first floor.”
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