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Item Details
Title:
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THE TWO KINDS OF DECAY
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By: |
Sarah Manguso |
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Paperback |
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£8.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1847083099 |
ISBN 13: |
9781847083098 |
Publisher: |
GRANTA BOOKS |
Pub. date: |
1 February, 2012 |
Pages: |
192 |
Description: |
The most extraordinary memoir about illness and grief since Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. |
Synopsis: |
At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable autoimmune disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralysing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life and then, furiously, to expect everything. In this captivating story, Manguso recalls her struggle: arduous blood cleansings, collapsed veins, multiple chest catheters, depression, the deaths of friends and strangers, addiction, and, worst of all for a writer, the trite metaphors that accompany prolonged illness. A book of tremendous grace and humour, The Two Kinds of Decay transcends the very notion of what an illness story can and should be. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Granta Books |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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