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When Breath Becomes Air
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Paul Kalanithi · 2016
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Book details
- Author
- Paul Kalanithi
- Publisher
- Random House
- Published
- 2016
- Pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN-13
- 9780812988406
- ISBN-10
- 081298840X
About this book
When Breath Becomes Air is a non-fiction autobiographical book written by American neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi. It is a memoir about his life and illness, battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House on January 12, 2016.
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