{"product_id":"9780141990859-the-undying","title":"The Undying","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Meditation on Modern Illness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PEN \/ JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Profound and unforgettable' \u003c\/b\u003eSally Rooney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A classic . I have long thought of Boyer as a genius' \u003c\/b\u003ePatricia Lockwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique'\u003c\/b\u003e Ben Lerner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Some of the most perceptive and beautiful writing about illness and pain that I have ever read' \u003c\/b\u003eHari Kunzru\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\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\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Undying\u003c\/i\u003e - 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGenre-bending, devastating and profoundly humane, \u003ci\u003eThe Undying\u003c\/i\u003e is an unmissably insightful meditation on cancer, the cancer industry and the sicknesses and glories of contemporary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449677885814,"sku":"9780141990859","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32290071.jpg?v=1760446422","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141990859-the-undying","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}