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Sep 17, 2019 · The Undying is an unforgettable artifact of physical suffering that refuses the myopic individualism of classic cancer narratives.
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Sep 17, 2019 · The Undying is a book by poet Anne Boyer about her experience of triple-negative breast cancer and its social and cultural implications. It explores the intersections of illness, literature, politics, and ecology through personal narrative, research, and criticism.
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A genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts, The Undying will break your heart, make you angry enough to spit, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally, perversely glorious.
Sep 10, 2019 · Boyer’s extraordinary and furious new book, “The Undying,” is partly a memoir of her illness, diagnosed five years ago; she was 41 years old when she learned that the...
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care is a 2019 non-fiction book by the American author, poet, and essayist, Anne Boyer. The memoir chronicles Boyer's experience as a breast cancer patient.
Sep 17, 2019 · The Undying is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book that explores the personal and political dimensions of breast cancer, as well as the cultural and environmental factors that shape our health and well-being. The author, a poet and essayist, weaves together her own experience, research, and criticism to create a powerful and provocative work of art and activism.
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Sep 8, 2020 · The Undying is a genre-bending book that explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, and the ecological costs of chemotherapy. It is also a harrowing memoir of survival, a critique of the pharmaceutical industry and the pink ribbon culture, and a tribute to the literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and deaths.
