Large print book
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. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781410487858
- Physical Description: 241 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Farmington Hills, Michigan : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
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| Subject: | Kalanithi, Paul > Health. Lungs > Cancer > Patients > United States > Biography. Neurosurgeons > Biography. Husband and wife. Large type books. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver Valley Public Library | LP 616.994 KAL (Text) | 35144000149398 | Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Nelson Public Library | LP 921 KAL (Text) | 3514830023717 | Large Print | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Sechelt Public Library | LP 616.99/424 KALA (Text) | 3326000376596 | Large Print | Volume hold | Available | - |
