| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
5 audio discs (5 1/2 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
053000 |
| Description |
digital optical rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
| Performer |
Read by Sunil Malhotra and Cassandra Campbell. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
| Summary |
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 making a living treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air, which features a Foreword by Dr. Abraham Verghese and an Epilogue by Kalanithi's wife, Lucy, 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 young neurosurgeon at Stanford, guiding patients toward a deeper understanding of death and illness, and finally into a patient and a new father to a baby girl, confronting his own mortality. |
| Subject |
Kalanithi, Paul -- Health.
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Neurosurgeons -- United States -- Biography.
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Lungs -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Husband and wife.
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Death.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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MEDICAL / General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Verghese, Abraham, 1955- writer of foreword.
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Malhotra, Sunil, narrator.
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Campbell, Cassandra, narrator.
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| ISBN |
9781524708146 (Random House Audio) |
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1524708143 (Random House Audio) |
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9780399566189 (Books on Tape) |
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039956618X (Books on Tape) |
| Music No. |
PRHA 5592 Random House Audio/Books on Tape |
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