I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'farrell

I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'farrell

I Am I Am I Am is a gripping and glorious investigation of death that leaves the reader feeling breathless, grateful, and fully alive. Maggie O'Farrell is a miracle in every sense. I will never forget this book.
--Ann Patchett

An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-selling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking.

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.

After You'd Gone, My Lover's Lover, The Space Between Us, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine, which won the Costa Novel Award, and Instructions for a Heatwave, which was short-listed for the Costa Novel Award, are Maggie O'Farrell's previous novels. She is a resident of Edinburgh.

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ISBN 13	9780525436058
ISBN 10	0525436057
Title	I Am, I Am, I Am
Author	Maggie O'farrell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2019-03-26
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Long-listed for Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2018
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