Regular: $23.99
Sale: $16.79 (30% Off)
Club: $11.99
Details
Still Alice
Author: Lisa Genova
Narrator: Lisa Genova
Unabridged: 8 hr
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: 01/06/2009
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis
An extraordinary debut novel about an accomplished woman who slowly loses her thoughts and memories to a harrowing disease -- only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease changes her life. As the inevitable descent into dementia strips away her sense of self, fiercely independent Alice struggles to live in the moment. While she once placed her worth and identity in her celebrated and respected academic life, now she must reevaluate her relationship with her husband, a respected scientist; her expectations of her children; and her ideas about herself and her place in the world. At once beautiful and terrifying, Still Alice is a moving and vivid depiction of life with early-onset Alzheimer's disease that is as compelling as A Beautiful Mind and as unforgettable as Ordinary People.
by Liane Moriarty
***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected proof*** Copyright © 2014 by Liane Moriarty Chapter 1“That doesn’t sound like a school trivia night,” said Mrs. PattyPonder to Marie Antoinette. “That sounds...
Published: 07/29/2014
by Neil Gaiman
Now a STARZ® Original Series produced by FremantleMedia North America starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning, and Pablo Schreiber.Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could re...
Published: 11/11/2003
by Jodi Picoult
When Willow is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, her parents are devastated—she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. In this provocative story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, “Pico...
Published: 12/13/2016
by Dan Brown
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and Inferno—now a major film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones—comes a lightning-fast thriller about an astonishing NASA ...
Published: 05/24/2004
by Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult's poignant #1 New York Times best-selling novels about family and love tackle hot-button issues head on. In The Storyteller, Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage ...
Published: 02/26/2013
by Jodi Picoult
One of America’s most popular authors, Jodi Picoult has earned a reputation for crafting riveting, topical fiction. In House Rules she examines how being different can have dire consequences. Teenager Jacob Hunt has Asperger’s syndrome. ...
Published: 03/02/2010
by Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese is also the author of The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book, and My Own Country, a National Book Critics Circle finalist. Currently a professor of internal medicine at Stanford University, he has also served on faculties...
Published: 02/03/2009
by Jeffrey Eugenides
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school, Grosse Pointe, MI, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with C...
Published: 03/01/2003
by Alice Sebold
Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. THE LOVELY BONES is such a book -- a #1 bestseller celebrated at once for its artistry, for its luminous clarity of emotion...
Published: 08/01/2007
Reviews Write A Review
Still Alice sounds like the autobiography of my friend's mother. I couldn't put it down and thought it was terrifying how such a brilliant mind could be devastated by this disease. It's a quick read but left me paranoid about all of the things I forget on a daily basis... for about a week I found myself asking, is this a sign that I have it too? Yikes. I have tremendous sympathy for anyone battling alzheimer's.
I cannot really review the book itself, as I could barely get through the first disk. It sounded as though it would be a good story, and I was looking forward to listening to it. However, the author was also the reader, and her reading was so bad that I simply couldnt stand it. Ms. Genova may be a very good writer, but she does herself no favor by reading her book. Her monotone, expressionless reading ruined the experience for me.
I agree with another reviewer in that listening to this book was so annoying with the author droning on in an expressionless, monotone, soliloquy that I gave up half way through the first CD.