Book · 1997 · Nonfiction
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
A Memoir of Life and Death
Vintage (Penguin Random House) · 144 pages
★ 5.0 editorial score
A stroke left the editor of French Elle able to move one eyelid. Blinking while an assistant recited the alphabet, Bauby composed a memoir of appetite, his children, and the body holding him.
