The diving-bell & the butterfly /
Bauby, Jean-Dominique
The diving-bell & the butterfly / Jean-Dominique Bauby - London : Fourth Estate Limited, c1997 - 139 pages ; 23 cm.
Prologue -- The wheelchair -- Prayer -- Bath time -- The alphabet -- The empress -- Cinecitta -- Tourists -- The sausage -- Guardian angel -- The photo -- Yet another coincidence -- The dream -- Voice off -- My lucky day -- Our very own Madonna -- Through a glass, darkly -- Paris -- The turnip -- Outing -- Twenty to one -- Loaded for a duck -- Sunday -- The ladies of Hongkong -- The message -- At the wax museum -- The mythmaker -- A day in the life -- Season of renewal.
"The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly, which records Bauby’s lonely existence, is probably the most remarkable book about the triumph of the human spirit, the ability to invent a life for oneself in the most appalling of circumstances, that you will ever read."
1857027795
BAUBY, JEAN DOMINIQUE. 1952 -1997 -- HEALTH
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE -- PATIENTS -- FRANCE -- BIOGRAPHY
PERIODICAL EDITORS -- FRANCE -- BIOGRAPHY
RC 388.5 .B38 1997
The diving-bell & the butterfly / Jean-Dominique Bauby - London : Fourth Estate Limited, c1997 - 139 pages ; 23 cm.
Prologue -- The wheelchair -- Prayer -- Bath time -- The alphabet -- The empress -- Cinecitta -- Tourists -- The sausage -- Guardian angel -- The photo -- Yet another coincidence -- The dream -- Voice off -- My lucky day -- Our very own Madonna -- Through a glass, darkly -- Paris -- The turnip -- Outing -- Twenty to one -- Loaded for a duck -- Sunday -- The ladies of Hongkong -- The message -- At the wax museum -- The mythmaker -- A day in the life -- Season of renewal.
"The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly, which records Bauby’s lonely existence, is probably the most remarkable book about the triumph of the human spirit, the ability to invent a life for oneself in the most appalling of circumstances, that you will ever read."
1857027795
BAUBY, JEAN DOMINIQUE. 1952 -1997 -- HEALTH
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE -- PATIENTS -- FRANCE -- BIOGRAPHY
PERIODICAL EDITORS -- FRANCE -- BIOGRAPHY
RC 388.5 .B38 1997
