Still Alice
by Lisa Genova
Taste attributes: dramaslowfresh & originalheavyrealisticenclosedemotive & stirringhuman spirit/resilience/survivalcomplex relationship
Boxlist takeA grounded novel that is contained, emotional and heavy. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.0 / 5
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About This Book
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.
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- Author
- Lisa Genova
- Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 319
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- Open Library
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