I am, I am, I am : seventeen brushes with death / Maggie O'Farrell.
Publication details: London : Headline Publishing Group, 2017.Edition: First editionDescription: 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781472240750 (paperback)
- 1472240758 (paperback)
- 9781472240743 (hardback)
- 147224074X (hardback)
- 823.914 B 23
- PR6065.F36 Z46 2018
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 823.914 OFA | Available | 066897 |
"A memoir" -- Cover.
An extraordinarily intimate memoir of the near death experiences that have made Maggie O'Farrell the woman and the writer she is today. A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. A terrifying encounter on a remote path. A mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital. This is a memoir with a difference: seventeen encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal to us a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. It is a book to make you question yourself: what would you do if your life was in danger? How would you react? And what would you stand to lose? "I AM, I AM, I AM" is a book you will finish newly conscious of your own vulnerability, and determined to make every heartbeat count.