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Echoes of Heartsounds A Memoir of Healing

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ISBN-10: 1497646154

ISBN-13: 9781497646155

Edition: N/A

Authors: Martha Weinman Lear

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Part love story, part medical drama, here is Martha Weinman Lear's wrenching tale of her time in a cardiac ward, thirty-five years after she chronicled her first husband's fatal heart attack in the bestselling memoir Heartsounds.It happens late one October afternoon, while she is eating a bowl of homemade soup. It does not put pressure on her chest or paralyze her body. There is a light fluttering presence, alternating sensations of heat and cold, and then, finally, nausea sets in. Nothing to worry about, the doctor assures her on the phone. It cannot be a heart attack. But it is. Heart attacks for women manifest themselves through various symptoms, and often go undiagnosed--but heart…    
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Book details

List price: $20.99
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Publication date: 9/16/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 206
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Martha Weinman Lear is the author of Where Did I Leave My Glasses? as well as the bestsellers The Child Worshipers and Heartsounds, which became a Peabody Award�-winning film. She is a former articles editor and staff writer for the New York Times Magazine and has written extensively for that and many other national publications, including AARP The Magazine, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, GQ, House Beautiful, Redbook, Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's Day, McCall's, Family Circle, and Reader's Digest, often on medical, cultural, and sociological subjects. She lives in New York City with her husband, screenwriter Albert…