A week after her 41st birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living payslip to payslip, the condition was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness.

In The Undying - at once her harrowing memoir of survival, and a 21st-century Illness as Metaphor - Boyer draws on sources from ancient Roman dream diarists to cancer vloggers to explore the experience of illness. She investigates the quackeries, casualties and ecological costs of cancer under capitalism, and dives into the long line of women writing about their own illnesses and deaths, among them Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker and Susan Sontag.

Genre-bending, devastating and profoundly humane, The Undying is an unmissably insightful meditation on cancer, the cancer industry and the sicknesses and glories of contemporary Life. 

ÖVRIGT:
Mediatyp: Bok
Bandtyp: Pocket
Författare: Anne Boyer
Förlag: Penguin Books Ltd.
Språk: Engelska
Omfång: 308 sidor
Mått (bxhxd): 128x198x19 mm
Vikt: 240 gram
Illustrerad: Nej

Streckkod: 9780141990859
SKU: 794187