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To create this tremendously affecting memoir, Jean-Dominique
Bauby used the only tool available to him — his left eye —
with which he blinked out its short chapters, letter by letter. Two
years ago, Bauby, then the 43-year-old editor-in-chief of 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.
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