| Reading and Writing Cancer: How Words Heal Contributor(s): Gubar, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393246981 ISBN-13: 9780393246988 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Diseases - Cancer - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General - Self-help | Journaling |
| Dewey: 616.994 |
| LCCN: 2016000544 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.8" W x 8.3" (0.80 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Elaborating upon her "Living with Cancer" column in the New York Times, Susan Gubar helps patients, caregivers, and the specialists who seek to serve them. In a book both enlightening and practical, she describes how the activities of reading and writing can right some of cancer's wrongs. To stimulate the writing process, she proposes specific exercises, prompts, and models. In discussions of the diary of Fanny Burney, the stories of Leo Tolstoy and Alice Munro, numerous memoirs, novels, paintings, photographs, and blogs, Gubar shows how readers can learn from art that deepens our comprehension of what it means to live or die with the disease. From a writer whose own memoir, Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer, was described by the New York Times Book Review as "moving and instructive...and incredibly brave," this volume opens a path to healing. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gubar, Susan: - Susan Gubar was awarded, with Sandra M. Gilbert, the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Book Critics Circle. She is the author of Memoir of a Debulked Woman and has authored and edited numerous works of criticism. She writes the monthly online New York Times column "Living with Cancer" and lives in Bloomington, Indiana. |