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The diving bell and the butterfly
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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 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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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.
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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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