I am, I am, I am

seventeen brushes with death

285 pages

English language

Published Dec. 29, 2018 by Knopf, Alfred A. Knopf.

ISBN:
978-0-525-52022-1
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OCLC Number:
999400815

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An extraordinarily intimate memoir of the near death experiences that have made Maggie O'Farrell the woman and the writer she is today. A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. A terrifying encounter on a remote path. A mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital. This is a memoir with a difference: seventeen encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal to us a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. It is a book to make you question yourself: what would you do if your life was in danger? How would you react? And what would you stand to lose?

5 editions

Subjects

  • Irish Novelists
  • Biography