Still Alice

Author(s): Lisa Genova

April Highlights 2010

Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. A Harvard professor, she has a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow forgetful, she dismisses it for as long as she can, but when she gets lost in her own neighbourhood she knows that something has gone terribly wrong. She finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of Alzheimer's Disease. She is fifty years old.

Suddenly she has no classes to teach, no new research to conduct, no invited lectures to give. Ever again. Unable to work, read and, increasingly, take care of herself, Alice struggles to find meaning and purpose in her everyday life as her concept of self gradually slips away. But Alice is a remarkable woman, and her family, yoked by history and DNA and love, discover more about her and about each other, in their quest to keep the Alice they know for as long as possible.

Losing her yesterdays, her short-term memory hanging on by a couple of frayed threads, she is living in the moment, living for each day. But she is still Alice.

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'The changes to Alice's relationships are so skilfully drawn that they brought tears to my eyes'. -The Sydney Morning Herald

'... a remarkable and utterly absorbing read'. -The Age

'An emotionally gripping read, with a powerful undertow that makes it impossible to put down.' - The Australian Women's Weekly

'Still Alice is not only an authentic picture of Alzheimer's disease, it's also a very creatively written and moving insight from a first-time novelist... '- The Herald Sun

Lisa Genova graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in Biopsychology and holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University. She is a member of the Dementia Advocacy and Support Network International and Dementia USA and is an online columnist for the National Alzheimer's Association. She lives with her husband and two children on the Cape. Still Alice is her first novel. She is currently at work on her second that also centers on a neurologist impairment called Left Neglected.

General Fields

  • : 9781921470271
  • : Simon & Schuster Australia
  • : Simon & Schuster Australia
  • : 0.24
  • : February 2010
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : Australia
  • : August 2010
  • : September 2023
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Lisa Genova
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 813.6
  • : 336