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| Genre/Form: | 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. |
| Other Titles: | Scaphandre et le papillon. |
| Responsibility: | Jean-Dominique Bauby ; translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
The author, former editor of French Elle magazine, describes surviving the rare stroke to the brain stem that left with locked-in syndrome, his mind intact in a nearly totally paralyzed body, able to communicate only with his left eye.
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