A 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. In 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. She investigates the quackeries, casualties and ecological costs of cancer under capitalism, and di The Undying - Anne Boyer od authora Anne Boyer a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Anne Boyer |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
320 |
Rok vydání |
2020 |
Nakladatelství |
Penguin Books |