The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Status
Sequim - Nonfiction (Adult)
616.9944 BOYER
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616.9944 BOYER
1 available
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
UPC
40029483715
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-306).
Description
"A fresh, fierce, and timely meditation on data, pain, time, and the limited capacity of literature to comprehend life and death in a sensate and vulnerable body." --,Provided by publisher.
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When Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer, the illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. Here she 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, the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism. She 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. -- adapted from jacket