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Author Saunders, Gerda, author.

Title Memory's last breath : field notes on my dementia / Gerda Saunders.

Publication Info. New York : Hachette Books, 2017.
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY SAUNDERS    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  362.1968 SAUNDERS    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  155 SAUNDERS    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  616.831 SAUNDERS    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  616.831 SAUNDERS    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B SAUNDERS GERDA S    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B SAUNDERS    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  362.1968 SAU    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  616.831 SAUNDERS    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  362.196 SAU    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xi, 272 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents Telling who I am before I forget -- Quantum puff adders and fractional memories -- The grammar of the disappearing self -- This is your brain on the fritz -- Of madness and love I -- Of madness and love II -- Makeovers in extremis -- The exit that dare not say its name.
Summary Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional shoplifting, car journeys derailed when she loses her bearings, and the embarrassment of forgetting what she has just said to a room of colleagues. Coping with the complications of losing short-term memory, Saunders nonetheless embarks on a personal investigation of the brain and its mysteries, examining science and literature, and immersing herself in vivid memories of her childhood in South Africa.
Subject Saunders, Gerda -- Mental health.
Dementia -- Patients -- Biography.
Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Biography.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Aging.
HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Alzheimer's & Dementia.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 9780316502627 (hardback)
0316502626 (hardback)
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