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Bibliographic Information
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The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care
First edition.
- Author
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Boyer, Anne, 1973-
- Publisher:
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
- Pub date:
- 2019.
- Pages:
- 308 pages ;
- ISBN:
- 9780374279349
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Item info:
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1 copy available in
Adult nonfiction shelves.
1 copy total in all locations.
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616.994490092 BOY
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The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care
First edition.
Boyer, Anne, 1973-
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The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care
First edition.
Boyer, Anne, 1973-
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Personal Author:
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Boyer, Anne, 1973-
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Title:
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The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care / Anne Boyer.
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Edition:
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First edition.
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Physical description:
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308 pages ; 20 cm
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Contents:
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Prologue -- The incubants -- Birth of the pavilion -- The sick bed -- How the oracle held -- The hoax -- In the temple of Giulietta Masina's tears -- Wasted life -- Deathwatch -- Epilogue / and what it was that saved me.
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Summary:
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"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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Summary:
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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
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Personal subject:
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Boyer, Anne, 1973- --Health.
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Personal subject:
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Boyer, Anne, 1973-
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Subject term:
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Breast--Cancer--Patients--United States--Biography.
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Women authors, American--Biography.
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Women artists--United States--Biography.
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Cancer--Psychological aspects.
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Mortality--Psychological aspects.
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Literature--Psychology.
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Subject term:
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Breast Neoplasms.
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Subject term:
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Attitude to Death.
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Subject term:
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Literature.