Death in Slow Motion
Subtitle: My Mother's Descent into Alzheimer's
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: January 21, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780066213965
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Sociology - General; Family/Marriage; Caregiving; Social Science; Biography / Autobiography; Patients; Literary; Women; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Cooney, Eleanor V; Reading Group Guide; Alzheimer's disease; Biography; Durant, Mary B; Family relationships
First sentence: September: About eleven months since we moved my mother to California to live with us, I wake at dawn from queasy dreams where I'm sliding down steep slimy banks of mucky pools or flying in a crowded flimsy airplane being pulled to earth by heavy gravity or searching for lost kittens in a dank primeval forest.