WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020WINNER OF THE WINDHAMCAMPBELL PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020FINALIST FOR THE PEN / JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD 2020Profound and unforgettable Sally RooneyA classic . . . I have long thought of Boyer as a genius Patricia LockwoodAn outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique Ben LernerSome of the most perceptive and beautiful writing about illness and pain that I have ever read Hari KunzruBlending memoir with critique, an awardwinning poet and essayists devastating exploration of sickness and health, cancer and the cancer industry, in the modern worldA week after her 41st birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triplenegative breast cancer. For a single mother living payslip to payslip, the condition was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness.In The Undying at once her harrowing memoir of survival, and a 21stcentury Illness as Metaphor Boyer draws on sources from ancient Roman dream diarists to cancer vloggers to explore the experience of illness. She investigates the quackeries, casualties and ecological costs of cancer under capitalism, and dives into the long line of women writing about their own illnesses and deaths, among them Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker and Susan Sontag.Genrebending, devastating and profoundly humane, The Undying is an unmissably insightful meditation on cancer, the cancer industry and the sicknesses and glories of...

Binding: Paperback;320 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: BM; Weight: 358 g; Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 25

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