The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care
(2019)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
616.99449/BOYER,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
306 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780374279349, 0374279349 :, 0374279349, 9780374279349
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Prologue -- The incubants -- Birth of the pavilion -- The sick bed -- How the oracle held -- The hoax -- In the temple of Giulietta Masina's tears -- Wasted life -- Deathwatch -- Epilogue
"A fresh, fierce, and timely meditation on data, pain, time, and the limited capacity of literature to comprehend life and death in a sensate and vulnerable body." --