The Red Devil: To Hell With Cancer-- And Back - Rilegato

Rich, Katherine Russell

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ISBN 10: 0609603213 ISBN 13: 9780609603215

Casa editrice: Crown Pub, 1999

Riassunto

A cancer survivor describes her ten-year ordeal with the disease, offering an inspirational portrait of a surreal world in which she struggled with illness, treatments, exhaustion, and the medical establishment while trying to live a normal life

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Informazioni sull?autore

Katherine Russell Rich lives in New York City.

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l is a bold, wickedly funny tale of illness, joy, and the improbable triumph of love in the midst of despair.  <br><br>When Katherine Russell Rich was thirty-two, a newly divorced, high-powered magazine editor living a glamorous life in New York City, her ten-year (and still counting) ordeal with cancer began. Soon she was bald, scrambled, and living in two worlds simultaneously: the world of the ill, filled with treatments, exhaustion, and doctors as focused on avoiding malpractice suits as on healing; and the "normal" world, where dating, career, vacations, and 401(k) plans still matter.<br><br>Alternately wise and wise-cracking, Rich serves up vignettes from the surreal world only the ill know: the MS patient who crashes her support group, the alternative practitioner whose gifts come from extraterrestrials, the doctor who fires her patient, dating while bald, working without a brain, and smoking with cancer. Here is a woman who has been brought to her knees by disea

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Crown Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0609603213
• ISBN 13: 9780609603215
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 242
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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