The diving bell and the butterfly

The author, former editor of French Elle magazine, describes surviving the rare stroke to the brain stem that left him with locked-in syndrome. With his mind intact in a nearly totally paralyzed body, he was able to communicate only with his left eye. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty,...

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Uniform Title: Scaphandre et le papillon. English
Main Author: Bauby, Jean-Dominique, 1952-1997.
Format: Book
Language: English
French
Published: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1997.
Physical Description: 131 pages ; 20 cm.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
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