Still Alice
By: Lisa Genova.
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Softcover
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781439102817
Copyright date: 2007, 2009
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease -- Fiction; Women college teachers -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
First sentence: Alice sat at her desk in their bedroom distracted by the sounds of John racing through each of the rooms on the first floor.
Description: Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease.