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When breath becomes air / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese.

Kalanithi, Paul, (author.). Verghese, A. (Abraham), 1955- (writer of foreword.).

Summary:

"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.

Item details

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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