Still Alice

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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 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.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 6, 2009
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 292 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1439102813
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1439102817
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.44 x 1 x 8.25 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #22,161 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #33 in Medical Fiction (Books) #431 in Contemporary Women Fiction #1,046 in Literary Fiction (Books)
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