The undying : a meditation on modern illness

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Label

The undying : a meditation on modern illness

Title remainder

a meditation on modern illness

Statement of responsibility

Anne Boyer

Creator

• trueBoyer, Anne, 1973-

Author

• trueBoyer, Anne, 1973-

Subject

• trueBreast -- Cancer | Patients
• Breast -- Cancer | Patients -- United States -- Biography
• trueCancer -- Patients
• trueCancer -- Psychological aspects
• Cancer in women
• Boyer, Anne, 1973-
• Mortality -- Psychological aspects
• Nonfiction
• trueWomen artists -- United States -- Biography
• trueWomen authors, American -- Biography
• trueLiterature -- Psychology
• Boyer, Anne, 1973- -- Health

Genre

• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

A twenty-first-century illness as metaphor, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival, The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, John Donne, pro-pain 'dolorists', the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of 'pink ribbon culture' while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and others. Genre-bending, angry, profoundly humane and deeply affecting, The Undying is an unmissably original book of heart, intellect and fierce insight into the sicknesses and, occasionally, the perverse glories of our contemporary world

Biography type

contains biographical information

Dewey number

362.1969940092

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction