When breath becomes air [sound recording] / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese.
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air, which features a Foreword by Dr. Abraham Verghese and an Epilogue by Kalanithi's wife, Lucy, chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student 'possessed,' as he wrote, 'by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life' into a young neurosurgeon at Stanford, guiding patients toward a deeper understanding of death and illness, and finally into a patient and a new father to a baby girl, confronting his own mortality.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780399566189
- ISBN: 039956618X
- ISBN: 9781524708146
- ISBN: 1524708143
- Physical Description: 5 audio discs (approximately 5 1/2 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Westminster, Maryland : Books on Tape ; 2016.
Content descriptions
- Participant or Performer Note:
- Read by Sunil Malhotra & Cassandra Campbell.
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- 16 of 17 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library. (Show)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swansboro Branch Library | CD BIO KALANITHI (Text) | 36015000963997 | Adult Audiobook | Available | - |
| Albemarle Main Library | AB B Kalanithi (Text) | 31010000549305 | Adult Audiobook | Available | - |
| Cleveland County Main Library | AUDIO CD 616.994 KAL (Text) | 22281500130567 | Adult Audiobook | Available | - |
| Columbus Library | CD B KALANITHI (Text) | 31250200012724 | Adult Audiobook Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Cumberland Headquarters | BOOK CD 616.9942 K (Text) | 31781062331929 | Adult Audiobook | Available | - |
| Enka-Candler Library | KAL CD 54923 (Text) | 0020511077362 | Adult Audiobook | Available | - |
| Haywood County Main Library | CD B Kalanithi (Text) | 33115007660155 | Adult Audiobook | Available | - |
| King Public Library | CD (Text) | 30094100412334 | Adult Audiobook | Available | - |
| Lenoir Library | CD 616.9942 Ka (Text) | 50669012017969 | Adult Audiobook | Available | - |
| Lexington Public Library | CD 616.99 KAL (Text) | 25908007061547 | Adult Audiobook | Available | - |
