A very touching true story written by a top French editor, who suffered a massive stroke. Though he survived, he became physically paralysed with "locked-in syndrome", which meant that he lost all movement in his body except for his left eye, which became his only form of communication.
He wrote this entire memoir with the help of his assistant, who would read the alphabets to him, and he would blink when the right letter is reached. He tells of his life as a victim to the syndrome, the thoughts that go through his head -"full of humor and devoid of self pity" (quoted in one of the reviews). He died of heart failure 2 days after the book was published.
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