Product Details
Gallery, January 2009
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1439102813
ISBN-13: 9781439102817
Description
She didn't want to become someone people avoided and feared. She wanted to live to hold Anna's baby and know it was her grandchild. She wanted to see Lydia act in something she was proud of. She wanted to see Tom fall in love. She wanted to read every book she could before she could no longer read.
Alice Howland is proud of the life she has worked so hard to build. A Harvard professor, she has a successful husband and three grown children. When Alice begins to grow forgetful at first she just dismisses it, but when she gets lost in her own neighbourhood she realises that something is terribly wrong. Alice finds herself in the rapid downward spiral of Alzheimer's disease. She is only 50 years old.
While Alice once placed her worth and identity in her celebrated and respected academic life, now she must re-evaluate her relationship with her husband, her expectations of her children and her ideas about herself and her place in the world.
Losing her yesterdays, her short-term memory hanging on by a couple of frayed threads, she is living in the moment, living for each day. But she is still Alice.
Still Alice is as compelling as A Beautiful Mind and as powerful as Ordinary People. You will gain an understanding of those affected by early-onset Alzheimer's and remain moved and inspired long after you have put it down.
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How did you come to write this book?
My grandmother had Alzheimer's when she was 85, and I watched this disease systematically disassemble her. As her granddaughter, I was heartbroken. But as a neuroscientist, I was fascinated. I read a lot in the scientific literature about what was going on inside her head at the molecular level. I read a lot of nonfiction written by clinicians and caregivers. But I couldn't find a satisfying answer to the question, "What does it feel like to have this?" By the time my family was caring for my grandmother, she was too far along to communicate an answer to this question. But someone in the earliest stages could. This was the seed for Still Alice.
‘The most accurate account of what it feels like to be inside the mind of an Alzheimer's patient I've ever read. Beautifully written and very illuminating’
Rosie Boycott
Rosie Boycott
‘There are few page turners in this field of literature but this is one of them’
Alzheimer's Society
Alzheimer's Society
‘Beautiful, heart-breaking and haunting’ Sara-Jade, London
‘Incredibly moving and humbling’ Louise, London
‘Remarkable, illuminating … highly relevant today’ Daily Mail
‘Incredibly compelling and engaging’ Natalie, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
"With grace and compassion, Lisa Genova writes about the enormous white emptiness created by Alzheimer's."
-- The Improper Bostonian
"Heartbreaking."
-- The Cape Cod Chronicle
Individual.com, December 10, 2009
...Lisa Genova graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in Biopsychology and holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University. She is a member of the Dementia Advocacy, Support ...
Times Union, December 1, 2009
...other books in the running for Schenectady's community program were "Skeletons at the Feast" by Chris Bohjalian, "Still Alice" by Lisa Genova, "Strength in What Remains" by Tracy Kidder and "World Made by Hand" by James Howard Kunstler of ...
Morning Call, November 15, 2009
...Allentown native adapts 'Still Alice' for the stage Related Still Alice Brian McDermott Still Alice Stories X Kathy Lauer-Williams OF THE MORNING CALL Text Size It's a painful moment. Alice, a respected 50-year-old ...
Middlefield Town Times, October 22, 2009
...conclusion to the Friends of the Watertown Library's third Annual Summer Read occurred Wednesday, October 14, as Lisa Genova, a first-time author on the New York Times Best Sellers List, spoke to a 'full house' at the First Congregational ...
Huffington Post, October 17, 2009
...Forty authors are on deck to participate in readings, panel discussions and meet-and-greet receptions nationwide. Featured authors include: Lisa Genova (Still Alice, Pocket Books); Katherine Howe (The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, ...
Sandwich Broadsider, October 14, 2009
...Titcomb?s Bookshop will host a book discussion with Cape Cod author Lisa Genova at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 20 at the Sandwich Public Library. ?Still Alice? is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early ...
Middlefield Town Times, August 13, 2009
...Lisa Genova, this year's guest author for the Third Annual Summer Read sponsored by the Friends of the Watertown Library, is best described as a motivated individual. In her academic ...
Woodstock Sentinel-Review, August 11, 2009
...marriage and their passionate love for each other, as the story unfolds from both points of view. 8. Still Alice Lisa Genova Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50 year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's ...
Hingham Journal, August 10, 2009
...Cohasset. Attendees can enjoy a continental breakfast while three contemporary authors discuss their latest work. Authors will be Lisa Genova, Lynne Griffin and Anne D. LeClaire. Genova?s book, ?Still Alice,? is about a 50-year-old woman who ...
Falmouth Bulletin, August 4, 2009
...New York Times bestselling author Lisa Genova will discuss her most recent novel ?Still Alice? at Highfield Hall at 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 6 as part of the third summer season of the Inkwell Literary ...
Globe and Mail, July 31, 2009
...2008 Leacock Medal for Humour, which it went on to win. This year's international self-published darling is Lisa Genova, a Harvard-educated neuroscientist who went the in-demand route after a failed campaign to interest any agents or ...
Bradley Scout, April 6, 2009
...Print-on-demand means digital copies only get printed when someone buys a book Lisa Genova decided to self-publish after her book was turned down by agents Melinda Roberts found success after self-publishing her book Web-based publishing ...
KCRG.com, April 6, 2009
... By Elham Khatami CNN (CNN) -- 'Still Alice,' written by Lisa Genova, is a novel about a 50-year-old Harvard professor's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. It's also a book, Genova was told, that nobody would ...
CNN, April 6, 2009
... 'Still Alice,' written by Lisa Genova, is a novel about a 50-year-old Harvard professor's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. It's also a book, Genova was told, that nobody ...
Cairns Post, March 30, 2009
...CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Still Alice by Lisa Genova (Simon and Schuster) Of all the ailments that can afflict us in our latter years, Alzheimer?s disease is surely one of those we fear most ...
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