When breath becomes air / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese.
"At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student 'possessed, ' as he wrote, 'by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life' into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality"--Publisher's website.
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- ISBN: 9780812988406
- ISBN: 081298840X
- ISBN: 9780399590405
- ISBN: 0399590404
- Physical Description: xix, 228 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Contents / Notes
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / by Abraham Verghese -- Prologue -- In perfect health I begin -- Cease not till death -- Epilogue / by Lucy Kalanithi. |
Awards Note: | PEN Award, Creative Nonfiction, 2017. |
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Genre: | Autobiography Biographies. Autobiographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. [Récits personnels]. |
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