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Pocket, January 2009
eBook, 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1439157030
ISBN-13: 9781439157039
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What if every memory you've ever had will be erased from your mind, and you have no choice but to carry on...powerless to stop it?
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 begins to grow disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life -- and her relationship with her family and the world -- forever.
At once beautiful and terrifying, this extraordinary debut novel by Lisa Genova 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.
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How did you come to write this book?
My grandmother had Alzheimer's when she was 85, and I watched this disease systematically disassemble her. As her granddaughter, I was heartbroken. But as a neuroscientist, I was fascinated. I read a lot in the scientific literature about what was going on inside her head at the molecular level. I read a lot of nonfiction written by clinicians and caregivers. But I couldn't find a satisfying answer to the question, "What does it feel like to have this?" By the time my family was caring for my grandmother, she was too far along to communicate an answer to this question. But someone in the earliest stages could. This was the seed for Still Alice.
"Heartbreakingly real.... So real, in fact, that it kept me from sleeping for several nights. I couldn't put it down....Still Alice is a story that must be told."
-- Brunonia Barry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader
"After I read Still Alice, I wanted to stand up and tell a train full of strangers, 'You have to get this book.'"
-- Beverly Beckham, The Boston Globe
"This book is as important as it is impressive, and will grace the lives of those affected by this dread disease for generations to come."
-- Phil Bolsta, author of Sixty Seconds
"With a master storyteller's easy eloquence, Lisa Genova shines a searing spotlight on this Alice's surreal wonderland. You owe it to yourself and your loved ones to read this book. It will inform you. It will scare you. It will change you."
-- Julia Fox Garrison, author of Don't Leave Me This Way
"A work of pure genius."
-- Charley Schneider, author of Don't Bury Me, It Ain't Over Yet
"A masterpiece that will touch lives in ways none of us can even imagine. This book is the best portrayal of the Alzheimer's journey that I have read."
-- Mark Warner, Alzheimer's Daily News
"With grace and compassion, Lisa Genova writes about the enormous white emptiness created by Alzheimer's."
-- The Improper Bostonian
"Heartbreaking."
-- The Cape Cod Chronicle
Huffington Post, October 17, 2009
...Forty authors are on deck to participate in readings, panel discussions and meet-and-greet receptions nationwide. Featured authors include: Lisa Genova (Still Alice, Pocket Books); Katherine Howe (The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, ...
Sandwich Broadsider, October 14, 2009
...Titcomb’s Bookshop will host a book discussion with Cape Cod author Lisa Genova at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 20 at the Sandwich Public Library. “Still Alice” is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early ...
Middlefield Town Times, August 13, 2009
...Lisa Genova, this year's guest author for the Third Annual Summer Read sponsored by the Friends of the Watertown Library, is best described as a motivated individual. In her academic ...
Woodstock Sentinel-Review, August 11, 2009
...marriage and their passionate love for each other, as the story unfolds from both points of view. 8. Still Alice Lisa Genova Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50 year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's ...
Falmouth Bulletin, August 4, 2009
...New York Times bestselling author Lisa Genova will discuss her most recent novel ?Still Alice? at Highfield Hall at 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 6 as part of the third summer season of the Inkwell Literary ...
Globe and Mail, July 31, 2009
...2008 Leacock Medal for Humour, which it went on to win. This year's international self-published darling is Lisa Genova, a Harvard-educated neuroscientist who went the in-demand route after a failed campaign to interest any agents or ...
Portland Press Herald, May 17, 2009
...Lisa Genova's debut novel ? 'Still Alice' ? made the New York Times best-sellers list earlier this year, even though she had to first publish it herself. But the buzz ...
Bradley Scout, April 6, 2009
...Print-on-demand means digital copies only get printed when someone buys a book Lisa Genova decided to self-publish after her book was turned down by agents Melinda Roberts found success after self-publishing her book Web-based publishing ...
KCRG.com, April 6, 2009
... By Elham Khatami CNN (CNN) -- 'Still Alice,' written by Lisa Genova, is a novel about a 50-year-old Harvard professor's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. It's also a book, Genova was told, that nobody would ...
CNN, April 6, 2009
... 'Still Alice,' written by Lisa Genova, is a novel about a 50-year-old Harvard professor's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. It's also a book, Genova was told, that nobody ...
Cairns Post, March 30, 2009
...CAIRNS BOOK REVIEW: Still Alice by Lisa Genova (Simon and Schuster) Of all the ailments that can afflict us in our latter years, Alzheimer?s disease is surely one of those we fear most ...
STLtoday.com, March 1, 2009
...Hosseini. (Riverhead, $16.) A friendship between two Afghan women against the backdrop of 30 years of war. 7. STILL ALICE, by Lisa Genova. (Pocket, $15.) A 50-year-old Harvard professor is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer?s disease. 8. ...
Boston Globe, February 8, 2009
...is Lawford's doing, and also creditable. Still AliceIn a real-life if not a fictional happy ending, neuroscientist Lisa Genova turned 'Still Alice,' her first novel, from a self-published long shot into a surprise bestseller. Her empathetic ...
Boston Globe, February 8, 2009
...at the Cambridge Center, 42 Brattle St. Cost is $14. Lives transformed The story behind the publication of Lisa Genova's debut novel, 'Still Alice,' is as dramatic as the trajectory of the life of its protagonist, an Alzheimer's patient. In ...
Southwest Florida Herald Tribune, January 28, 2009
...that they will be discovered by a mainstream publishing house -- and it does happen, however rarely. When Lisa Genova, a former consultant to pharmaceutical companies, wrote her first novel, 'Still Alice,' a story about a woman with ...
Time, January 22, 2009
...Here's a literary parable for the 21st century. Lisa Genova, 38, was a health-care-industry consultant in Belmont, Mass., who wanted to be a novelist, but she couldn't get her book published for love or money. She had a ...
Time, January 21, 2009
...Here's a literary parable for the 21st century. Lisa Genova, 38, was a health-care-industry consultant in Belmont, Mass., who wanted to be a novelist, but she couldn't get her book published for love or money. She had a ...
Book Reporter, January 16, 2009
...Genova that gives terrific background to the book. will prompt its a perfect book club book. I dare you to finish this novel and not turn to someone to talk about it. --- Reviewed by Carol Fitzgerald . © Copyright 1996-2009, . All rights ...
Buffalo News, January 15, 2009
...Calling all writing enthusiasts and Book Club fans: Join Lisa Genova, author of Still Alice, for a live online chat about the novel and the art and craft of fiction writing, on the Buffalo News Web site Jan. 21. Still ...
Columbus Dispatch, January 11, 2009
...Lisa Genova's first novel is a simple book, and simply horrifying. With compassion, and without sugarcoating, Still Alice describes from the inside the experience of the inexorable progress of Alzheimer ...
Hartford Courant, January 9, 2009
...the line for book signings will open to the general public. Also on Wednesday at 7 p.m., Lisa Genova will visit the bookstore to discuss her debut novel, 'Still Alice' (Simon & Schuster, $15), about a 50-year-old Harvard professor who ...
