Dying: A Memoir - Rilegato

Cory Taylor

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ISBN 10: 1782119760 ISBN 13: 9781782119760

Casa editrice: Canongate Books, 2016

Riassunto

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 STELLA PRIZE At the age of sixty, Cory Taylor was dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. With her illness no longer treatable, she began at the start of 2016 to write about her experiences and, in an extraordinary creative surge, wrote what would become Dying: A Memoir. This is a brief and clear-eyed account of what dying taught Cory: amid the tangle of her feelings, she reflects on the patterns of her life, and remembers the lives and deaths of her parents. She tells us why she would like to be able to choose the circumstances of her own death. Dying is about the vulnerability and strength, courage and humility, anger and acceptance that it takes to live a good life and say goodbye to it in peace.

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Recensione:

"A powerful, poignant and lucid last testament. At once an eloquent plea for autonomy in death, and an evocation of the joys, sorrows and precariousness of life" (MARGARET DRABBLE) --Margaret Drabble

"A precise and moving memoir about the randomness of family, and an admirable intellectual response to the randomness of life and death. We should all hope for as vivid a looking-back, and as cogent a looking-forward, when we reach the end ourselves" (JULIAN BARNES) --Julian Barnes

L'autore:

Cory Taylor is the author of two celebrated novels: Me and Mr Booker, which was a regional winner in the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and My Beautiful Enemy which in 2014 was shortlisted for Australian's premier prize for fiction, the Miles Franklin Award.

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• Editore: Canongate Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1782119760
• ISBN 13: 9781782119760
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 160