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The diving bell and the butterfly

Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby
Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st U.S. edView all editions and formats
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The author, former editor of French Elle magazine, describes surviving the rare stroke to the brain stem that left him with locked-in syndrome. With his mind intact in a nearly totally paralyzed body, he was able to communicate only with his left eye. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been in his body. Again and again he  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Personal Narratives
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Bauby, Jean-Dominique, 1952-1997.
Diving bell and the butterfly.
New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1997
(OCoLC)755234321
Named Person: Jean-Dominique Bauby
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jean-Dominique Bauby
ISBN: 0375401156 9780375401152
OCLC Number: 36896594
Notes: Translation of Le scaphandre et le papillon.
Description: 131 p. ; 20 cm.
Contents: Prologue --
The wheelchair --
Prayer --
Bathtime --
The alphabet --
The empress --
Cinecitta --
Tourists --
The sausage --
Guardian angel --
The photo --
Yet another coincidence --
The dream --
Voice offstage --
My lucky day --
Our very own Madonna --
Through a glass, darkly --
Paris --
The vegetable --
Outing --
Twenty to one --
The duck hunt --
Sunday --
The ladies of Hong Kong --
The message --
At the wax museum --
The mythmaker --
"A day in the life" --
Season of renewal.
Other Titles: Scaphandre et le papillon.
Diving bell and the butterfly
Responsibility: Jean-Dominique Bauby ; translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt.
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The author, former editor of French Elle magazine, describes surviving the rare stroke to the brain stem that left him with locked-in syndrome. With his mind intact in a nearly totally paralyzed body, he was able to communicate only with his left eye. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been in his body. Again and again he uses his imagination to experience an "inexhaustible reservoir of sensations," keeping in touch with himself and the life around him. Jean-Dominique Bauby died two days after the French publication of his book. This book is his testament to life under the most challenging of circumstances.

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