The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care / Anne Boyer.
By: Boyer, Anne [author.].
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©2019Edition: First edition.Description: 308 p: 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780374279349.Subject(s): 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 -- PsychologyGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RC280.B8 B645 2019 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000016616 |
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
"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." --