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Title	:	Still Alice
Author	:	Lisa Genova
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 292 pages
Published	:	July 6th 2007 by iUniverse
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Psychology. Book Club

Still Alice

Lisa Genova

Paperback | Pages: 292 pages

Rating: 4.31 | 287434 Users | 26965 Reviews

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Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University.

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. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what's it's like to literally lose your mind...

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Original Title:	Still Alice
ISBN:	0595440096 (ISBN13: 9780595440092)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Alice Howland, Lydia Howland, John Howland, Anna Howland, Tom Howland, Tamara Moyer, Dr. Davis
Setting:	Boston, Massachusetts(United States) Stanford University(United States) Los Angeles, California(United States) …more Chatham, Massachusetts(United States) …less
Literary Awards:	Next Generation Indie Book Awards Nominee for General Fiction/Novel (2008)

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Ratings: 4.31 From 287434 Users | 26965 Reviews

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The biggest problem with self-published work is the lack of an editor who tells you how to go from good to great. Still Alice has a wonderful premise: lets tell the story of Alzheimers from the patients point of view, but somehow the book sounds like a professor telling you the Alzheimers story from a patients point of view, rather than having the patient tell her own story. (Using first person rather than third would have been more effective.) I felt that I was reading nothing more than an

There are an estimated five hundred thousand people in the United States with early-onset Alzheimers disease (as at 2007 when this book was first published). Early-onset is defined as Alzheimers under the age of sixty-five. Symptoms can develop in the thirties and forties. Having worked in the pharmaceutical industry, Ive always been interested in disease, genetics, clinical trials and finally being able to see, after so many years of research and many failures included, a medicinal product

It's difficult to write that I really enjoyed Still Alice considering the subject matter, which is not an easy one to read about. Lisa Genova has provided a really insightful and intuitive account into the world of the early onset of Alzheimer's Disease. This is a very well written book and rather than it being told in an overly dramatic way, which could have been the manner some authors may have approached the story, Genova related it in a most respectful, considerate and compassionate manner.

I give this book 5 stars not because its an amazing piece of literature but because of its impact on me. I can't stop thinking about it and when I was reading it I couldn't put it down. It is the story of Alice, a brilliant professor of cognitive psychology at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics who discovers she has early onset Alzheimer's disease. This book is beautiful and terrifying - ringing true in every word. To quote a reviewer, "with a master storyteller's easy eloquence,

Update I just watched the film. It was very moving, an awful depiction of a terrible disease. I forget words. I worry that maybe... I don't even want to think of it. Good as the film was, it wasn't as good as the book. It could stand alone though as a separate work that more just shared names and a title. June 2015_____Still Alice reads like a memoir of Alzheimer's disease written by a family member but is in fact the first novel by a neuroscientist who, apart from being a great deal younger,

... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life. Lisa Genova, Still Alice Strong message. Made me cry and think about the lifeI would definitely recommend. Just GO read this book.

I wanted to like this book, I really did. I picked it because my mother suffered from dementia and I expected to relate to it.But I almost gave up on it in the first few chapters. Good writing is of paramount importance to me, and the writing here, while not godawful, has first book written all over it. Way too many "information drops," where the author tells us all about something or somebody in a chunk of info instead of just letting it unfold in naturally ocurring parts of the story. I'm glad