Heffernan, Deborah Daw, — An Arrow through the Heart (signed).

NY, Free Press, (2002). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Signed by author. One woman's story of life, love, and surviving a near-fatal heart attack. It happened without. waring. She was thin and fit, ate all her vegetables, never touched a cigarette. There was no family history of heart disease. Yet somehow at the age of 44 and in the middle of her weekly yoga class Heffernan felt her heart explode. After emergency surgery and a flood of complications, she was left with half a funcioning heart, a defibrillator under her skin, and the looming prospect of a transplant. Heffernan lives with her husband in western Maine.