Still Alice
In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer’s disease—only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart!
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring, and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what it’s like to literally lose your mind...
Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind, Ordinary People, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction.
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring, and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what it’s like to literally lose your mind...
Reminiscent of A Beautiful Mind, Ordinary People, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Still Alice packs a powerful emotional punch and marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction.
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Readers say *Still Alice* is a deeply moving, thought-provoking portrayal of early onset Alzheimer's from the protagonist’s perspective, praised for i...
This is a beautiful book that everyone should read! Beautiful story not only about the devastating effects of Alzheimer's, but also about the love of a family.
I loved this book however, if you are looking for a story with a happy ending this is not it. Let's be honest with ourselves there is no cure for Alzheimers. I enjoyed how the author wrote for Alice's point of view and seeing how frustrated she would get because she is a psychologist, she is a professor at Harvard so the thought of not being able to remember simple things like her lectures that she just went over an hour before the class, forgetting where she lived, and forgetting to get on a plane to go to a conference is very unsettling not just for this character but for the reader as well. This woman who has such a magnificent mind we see it deteriorate over the time of the book. It is well worth the read but frightening at the same time because you can't help to think, "What if this happened to me or someone I loved?"
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