The diving bell and the butterfly : a memoir of life in death /
Jean-Dominique Bauby ; translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt.
- 1st Vintage International ed.
- New York : Vintage Books,
- 131 pages ; 20 cm
Translation of Le scaphandre et le papillon. "Vintage International."
The author, former editor of French Elle magazine, describes the rare stroke to the brain stem that left his mind intact in a nearly totally paralyzed body.