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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.

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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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John P. Webster Library - West Hartford RC 280 .B8 B645 2019 (Text) 30401147764637 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford 616.99449 BOYER, A. (Text) 32544072573677 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport B BOYER (Text) 34000147826598 Adult Biography Available -
Burnham Library - Bridgewater 616.99 BOYER (Text) 36937002161041 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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C.H. Booth Library - Newtown 616.99 BOY (Text) 34014141743758 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Easton Public Library MEM BOYER, ANNE (Text) 37777123587784 Adult Memoir Available -
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe 616.99449 BOYER (Text) 34026143938541 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Howard Whittemore Library - Naugatuck 616.994 BOY (Text) 34027146556942 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon 616.99 BOY (Text) 33430145687406 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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