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When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese
$9.90
When Breath Becomes Air - Thryft
When Breath Becomes Air - Thryft
  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Biography or Autobiography (2017)
  • Wellcome Book Prize Nominee (2017)
  • Goodreads Choice Award for Memoir & Autobiography (2016)
  • Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2016)
  • Prix Jan Michalski Nominee for Longlist (2017)
  • Book of the Month Book of the Year Award Nominee (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese
$9.90
ISBN: 9781984801821
Authors: Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese
Publisher: Random House LCC US
Date of Publication: 2019-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Philosophy, Science, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Medicine, Medical, Autobiography, Biography, Biography Memoir, Memoir
Goodreads rating: 4.4
(rated by 643971 readers)

Description

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.
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