The diving bell and the butterfly : a memoir of life in death / Jean-Dominique Bauby ; translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt.
By: Bauby, Jean-Dominique.
New York : Vintage Books, 1998, c1997Edition: 1st Vintage International ed.Description: 131 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0375701214 (pbk.) :.Uniform titles: Scaphandre et le papillon. English Subject(s): Bauby, Jean-Dominique, 1952-1997 -- Health | Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients -- France -- Biography | Quadriplegia -- psychology | Cerebrovascular Disorders | Periodical editors -- France -- Biography | FranceGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 362.196810092 | B| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Translation of Le scaphandre et le papillon.
Originally published by Éditions Robert Laffont, Paris, in 1997.
"Vintage International."
Prologue -- The wheelchair -- Prayer -- Bathtime -- The alphabet -- The empress -- Cinecittà -- Tourists -- The sausage -- Guardian Angel -- The photo -- Yet another coincidence -- The dream -- Voice offstage -- My lucky day -- Our very own Madonna -- Through a glass, darkly -- Paris -- The vegetable -- Outing -- Twenty to one -- The duck hunt -- Sunday -- The ladies of Hong Kong -- The message -- At the wax museum -- The mythmaker -- "A day in the life" -- Season of renewal.
The author, former editor of French Elle magazine, describes the rare stroke to the brain stem that left his mind intact in a nearly totally paralyzed body.