The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby

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  • : $25.00 NZD
  • : 9780008329747
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Australia
  • : Fourth Estate
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  • : 0.27
  • : April 2019
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  • : October 2022
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  • : Jean-Dominique Bauby
  • : 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
  • : Paperback
  • : 1904
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  • : English
  • : 362.196810092
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Barcode 9780008329747
9780008329747

Description

One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French Elle and the father of two young children, suffered a massive stroke and found himself paralysed and speechless. But his mind remained as active and alert as it had ever been. Using his only functioning muscle - his left eyelid - he was determined to tell his remarkable story, painstakingly spelling it out letter by letter. The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly records Bauby's lonely existence but also the ability to invent a life for oneself in the most appalling of circumstances. It one of the most extraordinary books about the triumph of the human spirit ever written.