I am, I am, I am : seventeen brushes with death / Maggie O'Farrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-.

O'Farrell, Maggie.

Novelists, Irish--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, Irish.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American & Canadian edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

Summary:

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 bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter -- for whom this book was written -- 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 restrained emotion, O'Farrell captures the perils running just beneath the surface, and illuminates the preciousness, beauty, and mysteries of life itself.

Contents:

Neck (1990)

Lungs (1988)

Spine, legs, pelvis, abdomen, head (1977)

Whole body (1993)

Neck (2002)

Abdomen (2003)

Baby and bloodstream (2005)

Lungs (2000)

Circulatory system (1991)

Head (1975)

Cranium (1998)

Intestines (1994)

Bloodstream (1997)

Cause unknown (2003)

Lungs (2010)

Cerebellum (1980)

Daughter (the present day).

Notes:

Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Tinder Press, 2017.

Other Format:

Online version: O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972- I am, I am, I am.

ISBN:

9780525520221

0525520228

OCLC:

999400815