Lesley Stern Diary of a Detour (Hardback) Writing Matters! (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Diary of a DetourCondition: NewAuthor: Lesley SternFormat: HardbackISBN-10: 1478008814EAN: 9781478008811ISBN: 9781478008811Publisher: Duke University PressGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Personal Development, Medicine, BiographyRelease Date: 09/18/2020Description: Diary of a Detour is film scholar and author Lesley Stern's memoir of living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She chronicles the fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable form of cancer by describing the dramas and delving into the science. Stern also nudges cancer off center stage by turning to alternative obsessions and pleasures. In seductive writing she describes her life in the garden and kitchen, the hospital and the library, and her travels—down the street to her meditation center, across the border to Mexico, and across the world to Australia. Her immediate world is inhabited with books, movies, politics, and medical reports that provoke essayistic reflections. As her environment is shared with friends, chickens, a cat called Elvis, mountain goats, whales, lions, and microbes the book opens onto a larger than human world. Intimate and meditative, engrossing and singular, Diary of a Detour offers new ideas about what it might mean to live and think with cancer, and with chronic illness more broadly.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 658gBook Series: Writing Matters!Release Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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