The miracle is that in doing so he was able to compose this stunningly eloquent memoir, which was published two days before Bauby's death in 1996 and went on to become a number-one bestseller across Europe. "In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the forty-three-year-old editor of French Elle, suffered a massive stroke that left him completely and permanently paralyzed, a victim of "locked-in syndrome." Where once he had been renowned for his gregariousness and wit, Bauby now found himself imprisoned in an inert body, able to communicate only by blinking his left eye. "One of the great books of the century.You read at one go, so gripping is this voyage to the inner heart and mind." - Financial Times. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. "A wistful poetic, ironic and whimsically affirmative testament by a man who refused to die in spirit." - The New York Times. Translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt. As new condition color illustrated softcover wraps.
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