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

By: Boyer, Anne, 1973- [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.

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.

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." --

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On Shelf	RC280.B8 B645 2019 (Browse shelf)	Available		AU00000000016616

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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." --

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

By: Boyer, Anne, 1973- [author.].

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