Random House Books for Young Readers When Breath Becomes Air

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes

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When Breath Becomes Air

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.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House USA
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 8 January 2019
Edition ‏ : ‎ Standard Edition
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 100 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1984801821
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1984801821
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 Kilograms
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.3 x 1.7 x 10.7 cm
Best Sellers Rank: #19,504 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Death #1 in Biographies of Medical Professionals #21 in Biographies of Philosophers & Social Scientists
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