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The diving-bell & the butterfly / Jean-Dominique Bauby

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Fourth Estate Limited, c1997Description: 139 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1857027795
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RC 388.5 .B38 1997
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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."
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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."

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