The Undying : : Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
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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." -- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Year Published: 2019
Description: 308 pages ; 20 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374279349
0374279349
SUBJECTS
Boyer, Anne, -- 1973- -- Health.
Breast -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- Biography.
Women artists -- United States -- Biography.
Cancer -- Psychological aspects.
Mortality -- Psychological aspects.
Literature -- Psychology.