Dancing With Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's - Hardcover

Kessler, Lauren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670038598 ISBN 13: 9780670038596

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2007

Synopsis

Documents a journalist's work as a caregiver for Alzheimer's patients after the disease claimed her mother's life, a process during which she came to deeply respect and admire the contributions of a care facility's overworked, underpaid, and humor-possessing employees.

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Review:

a Heartening and thought-provoking. . . . Kessler deftly marries research with hands-on experiences.a
a"The Seattle Times"
a Direct and courageous. . . . Anyone affected by the diseasea and thatas almost everyoneahas to read this book.a
aBarbara Ehrenreich, author of "Nickel and Dimed" and "Bait and Switch"

Heartening and thought-provoking. . . . Kessler deftly marries research with hands-on experiences.
"The Seattle Times"
Direct and courageous. . . . Anyone affected by the disease and that s almost everyone has to read this book.
Barbara Ehrenreich, author of "Nickel and Dimed" and "Bait and Switch"

? Heartening and thought-provoking. . . . Kessler deftly marries research with hands-on experiences.?
?"The Seattle Times"

? Direct and courageous. . . . Anyone affected by the disease? and that's almost everyone?has to read this book.?
?Barbara Ehrenreich, author of "Nickel and Dimed" and "Bait and Switch"

About the Author:

Lauren Kessler is the author of five works of narrative nonfiction, including the Washington Post bestseller Clever Girl and the Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy Bottom Riding Club. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, O magazine, and The Nation. She directs the graduate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0670038598
• ISBN 13: 9780670038596
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260