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010			_a 2017003005
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020			_a9780316502627 _q(hardback)
020			_a0316502626 _q(hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)960294165
042			_apcc
092			_aSaunders G. _bS257
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aSaunders, Gerda, _eauthor. _9334338
245	1	0	_aMemory's last breath : _bfield notes on my dementia / _cGerda Saunders.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a1706
264		1	_aNew York : _bHachette Books, _c2017.
264		4	_c©2017
300			_axi, 272 pages : _billustrations, portraits ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aTelling 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.
520			_aBased 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.
600	1	0	_aSaunders, Gerda _xMental health. _9334339
650		0	_aDementia _xPatients _vBiography. _9223723
650		0	_aAlzheimer's disease _xPatients _vBiography. _956154
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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