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(0)Jean-Dominique Bauby
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
From SWO Faculty Selection: Heather Aldrich: "This book is a memoir of a man who suffers a life changing medical event and how his life was altered after that event. After a few weeks in a coma, he awakens fully intact cognitively, but unable to communicate or move anything other than an eyelid. As a healthcare professional who has cared for many patients who have experience debilitating physical (and mental) injuries, this book was a very moving...
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind