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WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION

The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms ''the ideological regime of cancer,'' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself. Sally Rooney, author of Normal People

Anne Boyer's radically unsentimental account of cancer and the ''carcinogenosphere'' obliterates cliche. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. The Undying is an outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique. Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School

A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a si

The Undying

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 8 September 2020
      ISBN-13 9781250757982
      978-1250757982
      ISBN-10 1250757983
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      Autobiography: science, technology and medicine Biography: science, technology and medicine Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION

      The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms ''the ideological regime of cancer,'' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself. Sally Rooney, author of Normal People

      Anne Boyer's radically unsentimental account of cancer and the ''carcinogenosphere'' obliterates cliche. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. The Undying is an outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique. Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School

      A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a si

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