I Am, I Am, I Am, Seventeen Brushes with Death (Signed)
by Maggie O'Farrell
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 147224074X
- ISBN 13
- 9781472240743
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Saint Charles, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
"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."
A fine copy in red cloth with gilt titles on the spine. No marks or damage at all. Unclipped DJ is also excellent. A red silk bookmark is sewn in. Signed by O'Farrell on the special publisher's signed edition page before the title page.
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- Bookseller
- Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B258
- Title
- I Am, I Am, I Am, Seventeen Brushes with Death (Signed)
- Author
- Maggie O'Farrell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK ("True" 1st)
- ISBN 10
- 147224074X
- ISBN 13
- 9781472240743
- Publisher
- Tinder :Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2017
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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