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Simon & Schuster UK, April 2010
Mass Market Paperback, 336 pages
ISBN-10: 1921470275
ISBN-13: 9781921470271
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When Alice finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of Alzheimer's Disease she is just fifty years old. A university professor, wife, and mother of three, she still has so much more to do - books to write, places to see, grandchildren to meet. But when she can't remember how to make her famous Christmas pudding, when she gets lost in her own back yard, when she fails to recognise her actress daughter after a superb performance, she comes up with a desperate plan. But can she see it through? Should she see it through?
Losing her yesterdays, living for each day, her short-term memory is hanging on by a couple of frayed threads. But she is still Alice.
Losing her yesterdays, living for each day, her short-term memory is hanging on by a couple of frayed threads. But she is still Alice.
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"After I read Still Alice, I wanted to stand up and tell a train full of strangers, 'You have to get this book.'"
-- Beverly Beckham, The Boston Globe
"This book is as important as it is impressive, and will grace the lives of those affected by this dread disease for generations to come."
-- Phil Bolsta, author of Sixty Seconds
"With a master storyteller's easy eloquence, Lisa Genova shines a searing spotlight on this Alice's surreal wonderland. You owe it to yourself and your loved ones to read this book. It will inform you. It will scare you. It will change you."
-- Julia Fox Garrison, author of Don't Leave Me This Way
"A work of pure genius."
-- Charley Schneider, author of Don't Bury Me, It Ain't Over Yet
"A masterpiece that will touch lives in ways none of us can even imagine. This book is the best portrayal of the Alzheimer's journey that I have read."
-- Mark Warner, Alzheimer's Daily News
"With grace and compassion, Lisa Genova writes about the enormous white emptiness created by Alzheimer's."
-- The Improper Bostonian
"Heartbreaking."
-- The Cape Cod Chronicle
"Heartbreakingly real.... So real, in fact, that it kept me from sleeping for several nights. I couldn't put it down....Still Alice is a story that must be told."
-- Brunonia Barry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader
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...Lisa Genova’s books illuminate, educate Novelist and neuroscientist Lisa Genova has an impressive r?m? with a Ph. D. in neuroscience from Harvard University, and two bestselling books, “Still Alice” and ...
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...Kindle e-reader, I’ve been devouring books, and my appetite for engrossing stories is growing with each one! Still Alice kept showing up on the "recommended for me" list on Amazon, so I downloaded the sample to see if it would whet my ...
Blogcritics.org, March 16, 2011
...Kindle e-reader, I’ve been devouring books, and my appetite for engrossing stories is growing with each one! Still Alice kept showing up on the "recommended for me" list on Amazon, so I downloaded the sample to see if it would whet my ...
Kitchener Record, January 7, 2011
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Kitchener Record, January 7, 2011
...getting to last year’s best books will be challenged by new books coming from authors I admire. Lisa Genova is the bestselling author of the novel, Still Alice, about early-onset Alzheimer’s. Her neurological background continues in Left ...
Delimiter, December 23, 2010
...to a certain extent, this has already started happening, highlighting the success of New York Times bestselling author Lisa Genova internationally, with her book Still Alice . After a frustrating year attempting to deal with the publishing ...
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