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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781250757982 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
616.994490092 |
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BOY |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Boyer, Anne |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Undying: pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Picador and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2020. |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York: |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
308p.; |
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pbk; |
| Dimensions |
19cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes notes, index and references |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
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 experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, John Donne, pro-pain ”dolorists,” the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of ”pink ribbon culture” while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and others. A genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts, The Undying will break your heart, make you angry enough to spit, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally, perversely glorious.<br/><br/>https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250757982/the-undying |
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Cancer--Psychological aspects |
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Breast--Cancer--Patients |
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Health |
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United States |
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Medicine |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Books |
