When Breath Becomes Air
by Kalanithi, Paul
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good minus DJ
- ISBN 10
- 081298840X
- ISBN 13
- 9780812988406
- Seller
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Southampton, Massachusetts, United States
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Heritage Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- NF55676
- Title
- When Breath Becomes Air
- Author
- Kalanithi, Paul
- Illustrator
- n/a
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good minus DJ
- Edition
- Edition Not Specified
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 081298840X
- ISBN 13
- 9780812988406
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2016
- Pages
- 225pp
- Size
- 12mo = 7-9"
- Keywords
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