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The diving bell and the butterfly a memoir of life in death

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Main Author: Bauby, Jean-Dominique, 1952-1997
Other Authors: Leggatt, Jeremy
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 1998, c1997.
Edition:1st Vintage International ed., July 1998.
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Bauby, Jean-Dominique, > 1952-1997.
Cerebrovascular disease > Patients > Biography.
Periodical editors > Biography.
France > Biography.
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Item Description:Translation of: Le scaphandre et le papillon.
Physical Description:[132] p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:9780307389251 (pbk.)
0307389251 (pbk.)
0375701214 (pbk.)
9780375701214 (pbk.)
Author Notes:Jean-Dominique Bauby was just 43 years old when he suffered a massive stroke. At the time, he was a magazine editor. While the stroke spared Bauby's life and mind, it left him paralyzed. Self-described as "like a mind in a jar," Bauby was unable to move or speak. His only means of communication was his ability to blink his left eyelid. Before this condition claimed his life, Bauby painfully put his experiences and wisdom into the books, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, by correlating eye-blinking patterns and the French alphabet for transcription.

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