When Breath Becomes Air: The ultimate moving life-and-death story by Paul Kalani

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decades training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor, the next he was a patient struggling to live. In this book, he offers a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017. "Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable". (New York Times). At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decades training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithis transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away? Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both. Notes Now in paperback, this memoir chronicles how the author, on the verge of completing a decades training as a neurosurgeon, was diagnosed with inoperable cancer. It asks what makes a virtuous and meaning life, what is the source of human identity, and what to do when you have a child as your own life fades away. Kalanithi died, aged 37, in 2015, while writing the book. Author Biography PAUL KALANITHI was a neurosurgeon and writer. He held degrees in English literature, human biology, and history and philoso-phy of science and medicine from Stanford and Cambridge universities before graduating from Yale School of Medicine. He also received the American Academy of Neu-rological Surgerys highest award for research. His reflections on doctoring and illness have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Paris Review Daily. Kalanithi died in March 2015, aged 37. He is survived by his wife, Lucy, and their daughter, Elizabeth Acadia. Review "A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living." -- Nigella Lawson "Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful." -- Atul Gawande, author of BEING MORTAL "A great, indelible book ... as intimate and illuminating as Atul Gawandes "Being Mortal," to cite only one recent example of a doctors book that has had exceptionally wide appeal ... I guarantee that finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option ... gripping from the start ... None of it is maudlin. Nothing is exaggerated. As he wrote to a friend: "Its just tragic enough and just imaginable enough." And just important enough to be unmissable." New York Times "Powerful and poignant." The Sunday Times "Less a memoir than a reflection on life and purpose... A vital book." The Economist "Extraordinary...Remarkable... luminous, revelatory memoir about mortality and what makes being alive meaningful ... Lyrical, intimate, insistent and profound. Kalanithi had the mind of the polymath and the ear of a poet." -- Heather Hodson Daily Telegraph "Powerful and poignant... Elegantly written posthumous memoir... Should be compulsory for anyone who intends to be a doctor... A profound reflection on the meaning of life." -- Daisy Goodwin Sunday Times "A stark, fascinating, well-written and heroic memoir." -- Stefanie Marsh The Times "The power of this book lies in its eloquent insistence that we are all confronting our mortality every day, whether we know it or not. The real question we face, Kalanithi writes, is not how long, but rather how, we will live - and the answer does not appear in any medical textbook." -- Alice Okeeffe Guardian "Exceptional." -- Katie Law Evening Standard "When I came to the end of the last flawless paragraph of When Breath Becomes Air, all I could do was turn to the first page and read the whole thing again. Searingly intelligent, beautifully written, and beyond brave, I havent been so marked by a book in years." -- Gabriel Weston, author of DIRECT RED "A tremendous book, crackling with life, animated by wonder and by the question of how we should live. Paul Kalanithi lived and died in the pursuit of excellence, and by this testimonial, he achieved it." -- Gavin Francis, author of Adventures in Human Being "A remarkable book... Kalanithi writes very well, in a plain and matter-of-fact way, without a trace of self-pity, and you are immediately gripped and carried along... [He] was clearly a deeply thoughtful and compassionate man, and his death is a great loss to medicine, but at least he has left this remarkable book behind." -- Dr Henry Marsh Observer "A meditation on what makes a life worth living." Guardian "It turns out not really to be about dying at all but about life and how to live it - though the closeness of death gives it an urgency and economy... When Breath Becomes Air is a Renaissance book from a Renaissance man. It is a work of philosophy and morality, a reconciliation of science and religion. There is even plot and excitement... It was only with the restrained, elegant epilogue written by his wife Lucy Kalanithi that I found myself weeping helplessly... When Breath Becomes Air tells us what means to live a good life, by giving us a glimpse into an exceptional one." -- Lucy Kellaway Financial Times "A powerful and compelling read." The Economist, Book of the Year "An astonishingly affecting memoir and eloquent examination of what it is to be human and confront your own mortality... This is a remarkable book by a man who was driven by his passion for his life, his loves and his career. His death is undoubtedly a tragedy but in writing this memoir he has guaranteed that his voice and the important story it tells will resonate for years to come." -- Mernie Gilmore Daily Express "As thought-provoking as it was moving. The sheer exuberance of Kalnithis intellectual curiosity shone through in his writing." -- Katie Law Evening Standard, Book of the Year "Dr Kalanithi describes, clearly and simply, and entirely without self-pity, his journey from innocent medical student to professionally detached and all-powerful neurosurgeon to helpless patient, dying from cancer. He learns lessons about the reality of illness and the doctor-patient relationship that most doctors only learn in old age but Paul Kalanithi died at the tragically early age of 37. Every doctor should read this book - written by a member of our own tribe, it helps us understand and overcome the barriers we all erect between ourselves and our patients as soon as we are out of medical school" -- Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm "To the venerable canon of doctors who could write (from Chekhov to Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande), another name can be added: that of Paul Kalanithi... Brilliantly written." -- Louise Carpenter Sunday Telegraph Promotional For readers of Atul Gawandes Being Mortal and Henry Marshs Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book about how to live. Prizes Shortlisted for Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2017. Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2016. Long-listed for Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2017. Review Text A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living. Review Quote A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living. Promotional "Headline" For readers of Atul Gawandes Being Mortal and Henry Marshs Do No Harm , an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book about how to live. Details ISBN1784701998 Author Paul Kalanithi Publisher Vintage Publishing Year 2017 ISBN-10 1784701998 ISBN-13 9781784701994 Format Paperback Publication Date 2017-01-05 Imprint Vintage Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 617.48092 Media Book Pages 256 Language English UK Release Date 2017-01-05 AU Release Date 2017-01-05 NZ Release Date 2017-01-05 Alternative 9781529110944 Audience General Subtitle The ultimate moving life-and-death story We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:101415311;

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