Still Alice
Jan 2009 · Simon and Schuster
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In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer’s disease—only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart!
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring, and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what it’s like to literally lose your mind...
Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind, Ordinary People, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction.
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring, and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what it’s like to literally lose your mind...
Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind, Ordinary People, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction.
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516 reviews
ROBYN TRAGER
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21 January 2015
Loved the book. Having said that I was extremely disappointed that the side effects of the NAMENDA were not mentioned. My Mother was prescribed the drug and it made her almost zombie like. (this is a common side effect) It was like what was left of her personality was just slipping away. To me it was worse, her personality was ever changing but on the Namenda she was a shell of the person she was when not on it.
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Cyndie McLaughlin
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9 November 2015
As I read this book I couldn't help make comparisons to my mother in law who is going through EoA. I can now understand what she may need thinking or going through and how I may better deal with her in these next very difficult years to come. I see some extremely similarities in things Alice went through in the beginning of the book. Thanks for writing this book. It makes everything make sense.
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Dmitri Deke
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20 March 2015
Though, it may not be the most politically correct thing to write, I'll still say I enjoyed this novel immensely. Although the clinical, cerebral mindset of the main character it still had a genuine note of emotion. It touched and it impressed. And it did scare me to death with this terrible disease.
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About the author
Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa Genova is the New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, Inside the O’Briens, and Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting. Still Alice was adapted into an Oscar–winning film starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, and Kristen Stewart. Lisa graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in biopsychology and holds a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University. She is featured in the documentary films To Not Fade Away and Have You Heard About Greg. Her TED talks on Alzheimer’s disease and memory have been viewed over eleven million times.
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