The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

Author : Jean-Dominique Bauby
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307454835
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly written by Jean-Dominique Bauby and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A triumphant memoir by the former editor-in-chief of French Elle that reveals an indomitable spirit and celebrates the liberating power of consciousness. In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young children, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a time, blinking to select each letter as the alphabet was recited to him slowly, over and over again. In the same way, he was able eventually to compose this extraordinary book. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been able to do in his body. He explains the joy, and deep sadness, of seeing his children and of hearing his aged father's voice on the phone. In magical sequences, he imagines traveling to other places and times and of lying next to the woman he loves. Fed only intravenously, he imagines preparing and tasting the full flavor of delectable dishes. Again and again he returns to an "inexhaustible reservoir of sensations," keeping in touch with himself and the life around him. Jean-Dominique Bauby died two days after the French publication of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. This book is a lasting testament to his life.

Author : Aimee Bender
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307744183
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Butterfly Lampshade written by Aimee Bender and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel in ten years from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she's sleeping, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie spies a dead butterfly, exactly matching the ones on the lamp, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. Twenty years later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment, and two other incidents -- her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact -- she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her, and what they say about her own place in the world. As Francie conjures her past and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie's past glow with the intensity of childhood perception, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is, What do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood? Told in the lush, lilting prose that led the San Francisco Chronicle to say Aimee Bender is "a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language," The Butterfly Lampshade is a heartfelt and heartbreaking examination of the sometimes overwhelming power of the material world, and a broken love between mother and child.

Author : Michael Whitworth
Publisher : Cahill Davis Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1739801512
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Camel and the Butterfly written by Michael Whitworth and published by Cahill Davis Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a slow news day when journalist Ian Rogers is handed a story. Claims are made that locally beloved poppy seller, Thomas Mirren, is a fraud. Ian is reluctant to disrupt the ninety-year-old man’s quiet life, but a bit of research proves there’s no record of the old soldier serving. Is it possible he’s just an old man pretending to be a hero? As the story is revealed, the town is divided. Some honour Thomas as a hero. Others ridicule him as a fraud. Few stop to learn the story of a man who spent his life running from the past, and simply wants to live out his days in peace. In a world where perception is reality, does the truth truly matter? Or will public opinion destroy the life of a kind old man? The Camel and the Butterfly is a heart-warming story of love, friendship, and one man’s undeniable strength of character. “An absolute gem” – Bobs and Books blog, Top books for 2021 “A gorgeous story” – melissa_reads_books review”

Author : Tan Twan Eng
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1602860599
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gift of Rain written by Tan Twan Eng and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell. The recipient of extraordinary acclaim from critics and the bookselling community, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell and has garnered comparisons to celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. Set during the tumult of World War II, on the lush Malayan island of Penang, The Gift of Rain tells a riveting and poignant tale about a young man caught in the tangle of wartime loyalties and deceits. In 1939, sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton-the half-Chinese, half-English youngest child of the head of one of Penang's great trading families-feels alienated from both the Chinese and British communities. He at last discovers a sense of belonging in his unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip proudly shows his new friend around his adored island, and in return Endo teaches him about Japanese language and culture and trains him in the art and discipline of aikido. But such knowledge comes at a terrible price. When the Japanese savagely invade Malaya, Philip realizes that his mentor and sensei-to whom he owes absolute loyalty-is a Japanese spy. Young Philip has been an unwitting traitor, and must now work in secret to save as many lives as possible, even as his own family is brought to its knees.

Author : Philippa Pullar
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gilded Butterflies written by Philippa Pullar and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1978 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Consultant in Community Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine Sarah Smith
Publisher : Tate
ISBN 13 : 9781849762052
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Butterfly House written by Consultant in Community Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine Sarah Smith and published by Tate. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lizzy and Jack take their new cat to visit their grandmother and her house full of butterflies.

Author : Lu Spinney
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1782398880
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the High Blue Air written by Lu Spinney and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aged 29, Lu Spinney's son Miles suffered a devastating head injury and was left in a coma. With unflinching honesty, Lu Spinney has written a passionate, urgent account of the years following her son Miles's accident, revealing his existence imprisoned in a limbo of fluctuating consciousness, at times agonizingly aware of his predicament. With unfailing honesty and courageous prose, Lu Spinney's memoir explores the very nature of self and the anguish of witnessing Miles's suffering as she and her family come to realise that, although he has been saved from death, he has not been brought back to a meaningful life.

Author : Robert Bruce Cormack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781510732810
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Can Lead a Horse to Water (But You Can't Make It Scuba Dive) written by Robert Bruce Cormack and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down the street, a dog is running around a lamp post on a leash. I feel like I'm on a similar trajectory.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1669384985
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Jean-Dominique Bauby's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-03T22:59:00Z with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The shock of the wheelchair was helpful. I gave up my grandiose plans, and the friends who had built a barrier of affection around me since my catastrophe began to talk freely. I began to discuss locked-in syndrome, which is very rare.

Author : Bright Summaries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782806284303
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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