When breath becomes air
(2016)

Nonfiction

Audiobook CD

Call Numbers:
CD/MEMOIR/KALANITHI,P

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Details

PUBLISHED
New York, New York : Random House Audio : Books on Tape, [2016]
℗2016
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

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

ISBN/ISSN
9781524708146 PRHA 5592, 1524708143, 9780399566189, 039956618X, 9781524708146, 1524708143 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Compact discs

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

Unabridged

Read by Sunil Malhotra and Cassandra Campbell

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