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Author:

Boyer, Anne, 1973- author.

Title:

The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care / Anne Boyer.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Boyer, Anne,--1973---Health.
Breast--Patients--Patients--United States--Biography.
Women authors, American--Biography.
Women artists--United States--Biography.
Cancer--Psychological aspects.
Mortality--Psychological aspects.
Literature--Psychology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Prologue -- The incubants -- Birth of the pavilion -- The sick bed -- How the oracle held -- The hoax -- In the temple of Giulietta Masina's tears -- Wasted life -- Deathwatch -- Epilogue.

Summary:

"A fresh, fierce, and timely meditation on data, pain, time, and the limited capacity of literature to comprehend life and death in a sensate and vulnerable body." -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0374279349
9780374279349

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1089841413

LCCN:

2019000373

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

ORAX826 -- Scott Community College (Bettendorf)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City)

SWPB522 -- Swisher Public Library (Swisher)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)