The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care / Anne Boyer.
2019
RC280.B8 B645 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care / Anne Boyer.
Author
Boyer, Anne, 1973- author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780374279349 (hardcover)
0374279349 (hardcover)
0374279349 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Copyright
©2019
Language
English
Description
308 pages ; 20 cm
Call Number
RC280.B8 B645 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.99/4490092 B
Summary
"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.
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
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
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-306).
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, 2020.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.