Dancing With Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's - Couverture rigide

Kessler, Lauren

 
9780670038596: Dancing With Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's
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ISBN 10 : 0670038598 ISBN 13 : 9780670038596
Editeur : Viking Pr, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Kessler Lauren

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Previously published in Hardcover as Dancing With Rose

One journalist's riveting and surprisingly hopeful in-the-trenches view of Alzheimer's

Nearly five million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer's. Like many children of Alzheimer's sufferers, Lauren Kessler, an accomplished journalist, was devastated by the disease that seemed to erase her mother's identity even before claiming her life. But suppose people with Alzheimer's are not slates wiped blank. Suppose they experience friendship and loss, romance and jealousy, joy and sorrow? To better understand this debilitating condition, Kessler enlists as a bottom-of-the-rung caregiver at an Alzheimer's facility and learns lessons that challenge what we think we know about the disease. A compelling, clear-eyed, and emotionally resonant narrative, Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's offers a new optimistic look at what the disease can teach us and a much-needed tonic for those faced with providing care for someone they love.

Biographie de l'auteur

Lauren Kessler is the author of six works of narrative nonfiction, including Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker, the Washington Post bestseller Clever Girl, and the Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy Bottom Riding Club. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, O magazine, and The Nation. She directs the graduate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon and lives in Eugene, Oregon.

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Éditeur
Viking Pr
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0670038598
ISBN 13 
9780670038596
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
260
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780143113683: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's: One Daughter's Hopeful Story

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0143113682 ISBN 13 :  9780143113683
Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2008
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