drawing), — An Arrow through the Heart.

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