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Author Boyer, Anne, 1973- author.

Title The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care / Anne Boyer.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  616.994 BOYER    Lost and Paid
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY BOYER    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY BOYER    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  616.994 BOY    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO BOYER    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B BOYER, ANNE    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  616.994 BOYER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  616.9944 BOY    Missing
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  616.99 BOY    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  616.99449 BOYER    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 308 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-306).
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
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.
Subject Boyer, Anne, 1973- -- Health.
Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- Biography.
Women artists -- United States -- Biography.
Cancer -- Psychological aspects.
Mortality -- Psychological aspects.
Literature -- Psychology.
HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Cancer.
Breast -- Cancer -- Patients. (OCoLC)fst00838293
Cancer -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00845466
Health. (OCoLC)fst00952743
Literature -- Psychology. (OCoLC)fst01000008
Women artists. (OCoLC)fst01177159
Women authors, American. (OCoLC)fst01177210
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780374279349 (hardcover)
0374279349 (hardcover)
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