The Forgetting

Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic

By: David Shenk

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Paperback | 14 January 2003

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304 Pages

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20.32 x 13.34 x 1.91

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Riveting. . . . Superb. . . . A must-read for anyone interested in the wretched ailment that is Alzheimer's Disease.' -San Francisco Chronicle Book Review The introduction, discussion questions, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of David Shenk's The Forgetting -an engaging account of the disease that afflicts nearly half of all persons over the age of eighty-five, robbing its victims and devastating their loved ones.

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Praise for David Shenk's The Forgetting "Riveting . . . Superb . . . A wonderfully readable history of the brain and of memory." --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"A remarkable addition to the literature of the science of the mind . . . Shenk has drawn together threads of neurobiology, art history, and psychology into a literary portrait of Alzheimer's disease perfectly balanced between sorrow and wonder, devastation and awe." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

"An elegant new book . . . Shenk rises above the usual rhetoric of combat and cure, enabling us to confront Alzheimer's not as an alien pestilence but as part of the human condition." --Newsweek

"Written with a researcher's attention to detail and a storyteller's ear." --The New York Times Book Review

"Destined to be a classic . . . Shenk's guided tour is free of medical jargon, filled instead with clear and sometimes memorable phrasing." --The Seattle Times

"Excellent." --The New Yorker

"A fascinating meditation . . . Shenk has found something beautiful and soulful in a condition that forces people to live in the perpetual 'now.' . . . Deeply affecting." --The Washington Post Book World

"A graceful, masterful portrait of [the] illness. . . Readers can't help but be taken by Shenk's humanity and compassion, which brim throughout." --Los Angeles Times

"Carefully researched and engagingly written." --The Wall Street Journal

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