Still Alice
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By Lisa Genova
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4 reviews
A moving story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer’s disease, now a major Academy Award-winning film starring Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart.
Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty, she’s a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a renowned expert in linguistics, with a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow forgetful and disoriented, she dismisses it for as long as she can until a tragic diagnosis changes her life – and her relationship with her family and the world around her – for ever.
Unable to care for herself, Alice struggles to find meaning and purpose as her concept of self gradually slips away. But Alice is a remarkable woman, and her family learn more about her and each other in their quest to hold on to the Alice they know. Her memory hanging by a frayed thread, she is living in the moment, living for each day. But she is still Alice.
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The Book is Informative & educative. It’s easy for me to identify with the main character, especially as mother developed dementia in later life. The book is written with love and compassion two important elements to life.
A well written book which deals with a difficult subject brilliantly. It gives an insight into the mind of the person who has the disease Alzheimer’s and what it must feel like as well as the impact on those who are close to.
KING CROSS ALTERNATIVE READERS GROUP.
I loved it.
It was an audiobook
Finished 24.08.15
Wonderful and sad. Thought provoking loved it and am keeping it to read again told all my friends on facebook
I thought this was an excellent book. I have worked with students who have dementia and it was fascinating to see the viewpoint from the patient.
It was very moving and gave me an insight into what dementia can do to a family.
Will look now at seeing the film
