Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life
The narrative of cancer has become disconcertingly familiar to us. But Mary Cappello turns the story inside out, folds it up, and deftly re-opens it into something new and rather marvelous. This is someone who reads Proust on the gurney while waiting to be wheeled into surgery. She brings us along for the ride, and it's a dizzying discursive delight. With a bracing combination of intellectual and emotional acuity, Cappello explores the inanities and indignities of the medical establishment, the solitude and camaraderie of illness, the politics and poetics of cancer culture. 'Most essays are finished before they've begun,' Cappello cautions he…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8232-9404-6
- EAN: 9780823294046
- Produktnummer: 34490300
- Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 220 S.
Über den Autor
Mary Cappello's seven books of literary nonfiction include a Los Angeles Times bestselling detour on awkwardness, a lyric biography, and the mood fantasia Life Breaks In. Her most recent book, Lecture, a speculative manifesto, inaugurates Transit Books' Undelivered Lecture Series. A former Guggenheim and Berlin Prize Fellow, she is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Rhode Island.
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