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 embarras...

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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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Table of Contents:
  • 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.