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The Yellow World : : how Fighting for my Life Taught me how to Live

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Translation of: El mundo amarillo.
This translation originally published: United Kingdom : Particular Books, 2012.
"The ... real-life story that inspired the television series Red Band Society"--Cover.
Where were you born? -- What is the yellow world? -- Losses are positive -- The word pain doesn't exist -- The energy that appears after thirty minutes is what you need to solve a problem -- Ask five good questions every day -- Show me how you walk and I'll show you how to laugh -- When you are sick, they keep tabs on your life, a medical record. When you are well, you should do the same: keep a life record -- There are seven tricks to being happy -- What you hide the most reveals the most about you -- Put your lips together and blow -- Don't be afraid of being the person you have become -- Find what you like looking at, then look at it -- Start counting at six -- The search for the south and the north -- Listen to yourself when you're angry -- Positive wanking -- The difficult thing isn't accepting how you are, but how everyone else is -- The power of contrasts -- Hibernate for twenty minutes -- Look for your hospital roommates outside of the hospital -- Do you want to share an REM with me? -- The power of the first time -- A way never to get angry -- The best way to know if you love someone -- Twenty-three discoveries that connect two ages : from fourteen to twenty-four -- The yellows -- How do you find yellows and how do you identify them? -- Yellow Q&A -- Conclusions about yellows -- The yellow end.
"Espinosa tackles the subjects of life, death, and love with wry humor and sharp insight, relating the discoveries he made during his 10-year battle with cancer as a teenager"-- Provided by publisher.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Ballantine Books, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: xiv, 153 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780345538123
0345538129

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Womack, James William, 1979-

SUBJECTS
Espinosa, Albert, -- 1974- -- Health.
Espinosa, Albert, -- 1974- -- Childhood and youth.
Espinosa, Albert, -- 1974- -- Philosophy.
Cancer -- Patients -- Biography.
Cancer -- Psychological aspects.
Self-actualization (Psychology)