Description
| Product ID: | 9780241453506 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Title: | The Cancer Journals |
| Authors: | Author: Audre Lorde |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: writers, Autobiography: literary, Memoirs, Literary essays, Feminism and feminist theory, Coping with / advice about illness and specific health conditions, Memoirs, Literary essays, Feminism & feminist theory, Coping with illness & specific conditions |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 'A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer' Jackie Kay, New StatesmanThe Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from biopsy to mastectomy, told by the great feminist and activist Audre Lorde. Moving between journal entry, memoir, and essay, Lorde fuses the personal and political to reflect on the many questions breast cancer raises: questions of survival, sexuality, prosthesis and self-care. It is a journey of survival, friendship, and self-acceptance. 'Grief, terror, courage, the passion for survival and for more than survival, are here in the searchings of a great poet' Adrienne Rich'This book teaches me that with one breast or none, I am still me' Alice Walker ''A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer'' Jackie Kay, New Statesman |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-11-05 |