I am, I am, I am
Subtitle: seventeen brushes with death, a memoir
By: Maggie O'Farrell
Edition: Center Point large print edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781683247081
Subjects: Large type books; Death; Anecdotes; Biography; Irish Novelists
Description: An extraordinarily intimate memoir of the near death experiences that have made Maggie O'Farrell the woman and the writer she is today. A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. A terrifying encounter on a remote path. A mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital. This is a memoir with a difference: seventeen encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal to us a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. It is a book to make you question yourself: what would you do if your life was in danger? How would you react? And what would you stand to lose?
Notes: Originally published: Alfred A. Knopf.