false 25751743 44612 193755 0375701214 9780375701214 1300 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172586445m/193755.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172586445s/193755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/193755.The_Diving_Bell_and_the_Butterfly 3.99 5900 Elle France, suffered a rare stroke to the brain stem; only his left eye and brain escaped damage. Rather than accept his "locked in" situation as a kind of death, Bauby ignited a fire of the imagination under himself and lived his last days--he died two days after the French publication of this slim volume--spiritually unfettered. In these pages Bauby journeys to exotic places he has and has not been, serving himself delectable gourmet meals along the way (surprise: everything's ripe and nothing burns). In the simplest of terms he describes how it feels to see reflected in a window "the head of a man who seemed to have emerged from a vat of formaldehyde."]]> 75287 3.99 6359 1405 1997 3 0 false Sat Jun 28 10:56:16 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 13:54:21 -0700 2008