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THE FAMILY THAT COULDN'T SLEEP: A Medical Mystery.
by Max, D.T
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a near fine dustjacket (short closed tear to dj at top of spine) ./near fine
- ISBN 10
- 1400062454
- ISBN 13
- 9781400062454
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Random House, (2006). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a near fine dustjacket (short closed tear to dj at top of spine) .. First printing. "A riveting detective story that plumbs one of the deepest mysteries of biology. The story takes the reader from the torments of an Italian family cursed with sleeplessness to the mad cows of England(and, now America), following an unlikely trail of misfolded proteins." Index, Notes. xxxi, 299 pp.
Synopsis
D. T. Max was born and raised in New York City and graduated from Harvard in 1984. He has been an editor at Washington Square Press, Houghton Mifflin, and The New York Observer . For the past eight years, he has reported mostly for The New York Times Magazine . His work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times , The Wall Street Journal , San Francisco Chronicle , and Chicago Tribune . He lives outside Washington, D.C., with his wife, their two young children, and a rescued beagle named Max. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59886
- Title
- THE FAMILY THAT COULDN'T SLEEP: A Medical Mystery.
- Author
- Max, D.T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in a near fine dustjacket (short closed tear to dj at top of spine) .
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1400062454
- ISBN 13
- 9781400062454
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2006)
- Keywords
- Prion diseases, Fatal familial insomnia, Prisons, Sleep disorders, science,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medicine, health and the medical profession;
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