Éditeur : PICADOR (NEW YORK)
ISBN papier: 9781250757982
Parution : 2020
Code produit : 1412605
Catégorisation :
Livres /
Littérature générale /
Livre pratique /
Témoignages et récits de vies
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Livre papier | En rupture de stock** |
Prix membre : 22,05 $ Prix non-membre : 24,50 $ |
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**Ce produits est en rupture de stock mais sera expédié dès qu'ils sera disponible.
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.
Livre papier | 0 |
Prix membre : 32,36 $ Prix non-membre : 35,95 $ |
Éditeur : GRASSET
ISBN : 9782246827672
Parution : 2022
Livre papier | 0 |
Prix membre : 23,36 $ Prix non-membre : 25,95 $ |
Éditeur : VARIA
ISBN : 9782896061792
Parution : 2022