| Cancer Vixen: Mi Lucha Contra el Cancer Contributor(s): Marchetto, Marisa Acocella (Author) |
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ISBN: 8466628088 ISBN-13: 9788466628082 Publisher: Ediciones B OUR PRICE: $25.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: Spanish Published: January 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Diseases - Cancer - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 7.77" W x 8.08" (1.40 lbs) 211 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, madly-in-love, about-to-get married, big-city-girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds . . . a lump in her breast?" That's the question that sets this funny, powerful and poignant graphic memoir in motion. In vivid colour and with a taboo-breaking sense of humour, Marisa Marchetto tells the story of her 11-month, ultimately triumphant bout with breast cancer - from diagnosis to cure, and every challenging step in between. But Cancer Vixen is about more than surviving an illness. It is a portrait of one woman's supercharged life in Manhattan, and a wonderful love story. Marisa, self-described "terminal bachelorette" meets her Prince Charming in Silvano, owner of the chic downtown trattoria Da Silvano. A month before their wedding, she receives her diagnosis. She wonders: How will he react to this news? How will my world change? Will I even survive? And . . . what about my hair? From raucous "New Yorker" staff lunches and the star-studded crowd at Silvano's restaurant, to the rainbow pumps Marisa wears to chemotherapy, Cancer Vixen is a total original. Her wit and courage are an inspiration - she's a cancer vixen, not its victim: "Cancer," she says, "I'm going to kick your butt And I'm going to do it in killer four-inch heels " "From the Hardcover edition." |