Bibliograph

I am, I am, I am, seventeen brushes with death, Maggie O'Farrell

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I am, I am, I am, seventeen brushes with death, Maggie O'Farrell

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

I am, I am, I am

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1022266708

Responsibility statement

Maggie O'Farrell

Sub title

seventeen brushes with death

Summary

An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's bestselling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking.We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death. I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life. The childhood illness that left her in the hospital for nearly a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a serial killer on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life's myriad dangers.Seventeen discrete encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and a restrained emotion, O'Farrell captures the perils running just beneath the surface, and illuminates the preciousness, beauty and mysteries of life itself

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