Still Alice is a fictional book about Alice, a highly intelligent professor and researcher, who gets Alzheimer’s disease at the incredibly young age of around fifty.
| Publisher: | July 6, 2007, by iUniverse, Inc. |
| ISBN: | 9780595440092 ISBN10: 0595440096 |
| Characteristics: | 292 pages, Paperback |
| Source: | and returned. |
The book begins taking the reader into Alice’s busy and demanding life. It’s clear that her intelligence is highly valued by her students and colleagues.
The encroachment of the disease on Alice is well expressed in the book. The first sign of trouble is when Alice loses her way on a run doing a route often followed. You feel as lost as her when she forgets how to get home. The memory erasure reaches its peak towards the end of the book when she cannot remember family names. It’s incredibly sad when she refers to her daughters as the woman who’s an actor and the woman with a child.
Reading the end notes it turns out that “Alice” seems to have been based on the author who is a renowned American neuroscientist with an interest in Alzheimer’s disease. Lisa Genova’s grandmother suffered from the disease which gave her the inspiration and material to write the book.
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