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Author:

Kalanithi, Paul, author.

Title:

When breath becomes air / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese.

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publisher:

Books on Tape,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

5 audio discs (approximately 5 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Kalanithi, Paul.
Neurosurgeons--Biography.
Lungs--Patients--Patients--Biography.
Death.
Audiobooks.

Other Authors:

Verghese, A. (Abraham), 1955- author of foreword.
Malhotra, Sunil, narrator.
Campbell, Cassandra, narrator.

Notes:

Compact discs. Read by Sunil Malhotra & Cassandra Campbell.

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 na©?ve 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.

ISBN:

1524708143
9781524708146
039956618X
9780399566189

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

BWPD851 -- Bertha Bartlett Public Library (Story City)