Memory's last breath field notes on my dementia

Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional shoplifting, car journeys derailed when she loses her bearings, and the embarrassment of forgetting...

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Main Author: Saunders, Gerda (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Hachette Books, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Telling who I am before I forget -- Quantum puff adders and fractional memories -- The grammar of the disappearing self -- This is your brain on the fritz -- Of madness and love I -- Of madness and love II -- Makeovers in extremis -- The exit that dare not say its name. 
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