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Book SynopsisA searingly honest, heartbreaking work of genius, this is a book about music, poetry, devastating illness, creativity, sex and drugs, and twenty-something life in New York''Writing this rawly self-conscious has no business captivating you, let alone moving you. That it manages to do it anyway is a testament to Mr. Cody''s talent, honesty, and singularity'' Jonathan Franzen
''The memoir of the year. It''s a sensorium, and a painful one, a book in which the sentences swing into you like small, gleaming axes ... He has a blazing intellect and can really write'' New York Times, Books of the YearJoshua Cody was about to receive his PhD from Columbia University when he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. He underwent six months of chemotherapy. The treatment failed. Expectations for survival plummeted. After consulting with several oncologists, he embarked on a risky course of high-dose chemotherapy, full body radiation, and an autologous bone marrow tr
Trade ReviewWriting this rawly self-conscious has no business captivating you, let alone moving you. That it manages to do it anyway is a testament to Mr. Cody's talent, honesty, and singularity * Jonathan Franzen *
The memoir of the year. It's a sensorium, and a painful one, a book in which the sentences swing into you like small, gleaming axes ... He has a blazing intellect and can really write * New York Times, Books of the Year *
With wordplay and quirky digression it renders a unique and serious story ... Cody does have an extraordinary tale to tell ... A masterclass * Observer *
As artfully constructed as a Tarantino film * New York Times Book Review *
Hilarious and cracklingly intelligent, fully alive and original in every sentence * Guardian, Books of the Year *
