Lisa GenovaDrama · Literary Fiction
Still Alice
Synopsis
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease.
How it reads
Prose complexity 4/10
Genres
Characters
Alice HowlandSupporting
Lydia HowlandSupporting
John HowlandSupporting
Anna HowlandSupporting
Tom HowlandSupporting
Subjects
2003-2005Activities of Daily LivingAlzheimer DiseaseAlzheimer's diseaseCambridgeCambridge (mass.)Cambridge (Mass.)Chatham (Mass.)Colleges and universitiesCollege teachersEnfermedad de AlzheimerEnfermosFacultyFemmesFictional WorksHarvard UniversityLos AngelesMaestras universitariasMaladie d'AlzheimerMassachusettsMemoryNew York (N.Y.)New York Times bestsellerNovelaNovela juvenilPatientsProfesoradoReading materialsRelaciones familiaresRomans, nouvellesSpanish languageStanford UniversityUniversidadesWomenWomen college teachersWomen teachersZiekte van Alzheimer
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Awards
- Next Generation Indie Book Awards2008














