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The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness

Autor Anne Boyer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 sep 2020
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020
WINNER OF THE WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020
FINALIST FOR THE PEN / JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD 2020


'Profound and unforgettable'Sally Rooney
'A classic . . . I have long thought of Boyer as a genius'Patricia Lockwood
'An outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique'Ben Lerner
'Some of the most perceptive and beautiful writing about illness and pain that I have ever read'Hari Kunzru

Blending memoir with critique, an award-winning poet and essayist's devastating exploration of sickness and health, cancer and the cancer industry, in the modern world

A week after her 41st birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living payslip to payslip, the condition was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness.

InThe Undying- at once her harrowing memoir of survival, and a 21st-century Illness as Metaphor - Boyer draws on sources from ancient Roman dream diarists to cancer vloggers to explore the experience of illness. She investigates the quackeries, casualties and ecological costs of cancer under capitalism, and dives into the long line of women writing about their own illnesses and deaths, among them Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker and Susan Sontag.

Genre-bending, devastating and profoundly humane,The Undyingis an unmissably insightful meditation on cancer, the cancer industry and the sicknesses and glories of contemporary life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141990859
ISBN-10: 0141990856
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Anne Boyeris a U.S. poet and essayist. In 2018 she was the inaugural winner of the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry and the recipient of a Whiting Award in non-fiction/poetry. Her books includeA Handbook of Disappointed Fate(2018) as well as several volumes of poetry, includingThe Romance of Happy Workers(2008) and the CLMP Firecracker Award-winningGarments Against Women(2016). She was the Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Cambridge University for 2018-2019. She lives is Kansas City, Missouri.

Recenzii

Anne Boyer is an essential voice, and this is an essential book: one body's urgent attempt at finding a language to tell us what it knows
This is a powerful, timely, and troubling book. Boyer's unflinching account of the market-driven brutality of American cancer care sits besidesome of the most perceptive and beautiful writing about illness and pain that I have ever read