Bibliograph

Memory's last breath, field notes on my dementia, Gerda Saunders

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Memory's last breath, field notes on my dementia, Gerda Saunders

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Memory's last breath

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

960294165

Responsibility statement

Gerda Saunders

Sub title

field notes on my dementia

Summary

Based on the "field notes" she keeps in her journal, Memory's Last Breath is Saunders' astonishing window into a life distorted by dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional shoplifting, car journeys derailed when she loses her bearings, and the embarrassment of forgetting what she has just said to a room of colleagues. Coping with the complications of losing short-term memory, Saunders nonetheless embarks on a personal investigation of the brain and its mysteries, examining science and literature, and immersing herself in vivid memories of her childhood in South Africa

Table Of Contents

Telling who I am before I forget -- Quantum puff adders and fractional memories -- The grammar of the disappearing self -- This is your brain on the fritz -- Of madness and love I -- Of madness and love II -- Makeovers in extremis -- The exit that dare not say its name

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