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The Undying A Meditation on Modern Illness

Hardcover • 2019 • English

The Undying A Meditation on Modern Illness

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About the book

A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. A twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival, The Undying explores the exper...Show more

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Narrative theme: Health and illness

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ISBN

9780241399729

Publisher

Allen Lane

Published year

2019

Language

English

Original title

The Undying A Meditation on Modern Illness

Format

Hardcover

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