{"product_id":"9780141990859","title":"The Undying : A Meditation on Modern Illness","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Boyer, Anne, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 08\/09\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 320 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Memoirs, Coping with illness \u0026amp; specific conditions\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780141990859\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlending memoir with critique, an award-winning poet and essayist's devastating exploration of sickness and health, cancer and the cancer industry, in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGenre-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36229382078617,"sku":"9780141990859","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780141990859.jpg?v=1601405737","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780141990859","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}