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The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care  Cover Image Book Book

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

Boyer, Anne, 1973- (author.).

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  • ISBN: 0374279349 : HRD
  • ISBN: 9780374279349 : HRD
  • ISBN: 9780374279349
  • ISBN: 0374279349
  • Physical Description: pages cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
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, etc.:
"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.
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.

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  • 21 of 21 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at John P. Webster Library - West Hartford.

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