Format:
Book
Author:
O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972- author.
Title:
I am, I am, I am : seventeen brushes with death / Maggie O'Farrell.
Edition:
First American & Canadian edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
©2017
Description:
288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary:
We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death. O'Farrell discusses the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life. From a childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive, through her ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life's myriad dangers. Seventeen encounters at different ages, in different locations, capture the perils-- and illuminates the preciousness, beauty, and mysteries-- of life itself.
Subjects:
O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-
1900-1999
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Novelists, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Notes:
Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Tinder Press, 2017.
Contents:
Neck (1990) -- Lungs (1988) -- Spine, legs, pelvis, abdomen, head (1977) -- Whole body (1993) -- Neck (2002) -- Abdomen (2003) -- Baby and bloodstream (2005) -- Lungs (2000) -- Circulatory system (1991) -- Head (1975) -- Cranium (1998) -- Intestines (1994) -- Bloodstream (1997) -- Cause unknown (2003) -- Lungs (2010) -- Cerebellum (1980) -- Daughter (the present day).
LCCN:
2017028597
ISBN:
9780525520221
0525520228
* 9780525520238
* 9780735274129 (ebook)
Other Number:
999400815
System Availability:
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Current Holds:
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1
Control Number:
107461
Call Number:
BIO OFA
Course Reserves:
0
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