Isbn: 9780413770103 - the red devil: a memoir about beating the odds (5 risultati)

Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Condizione: As New. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. The Red Devil is a bold, wickedly funny tale of illness, joy, and the improbable triumph of love in the midst of despair.   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. 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 disease several times, only to get up and learn to dance, with grace, even.…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good. Light edge and corner wear. Light creases to cover. Pages still clean and tight. All orders shipped with tracking number and e-mail confirmation. All Orders Shipped With Tracking And Delivery Confirmation Numbers.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. First UK Edition, First Printing. Book was first published in the US by Three Rivers Press in 1999. Author was thrree weeks post-marrige when she found a lump in her breast. It was the beginning of a ten year ordeal. 262 pp. plus Acknowledgments. book has very slight edge/shelf wear. SIGNED Kathy Rich. Bookseller's Inventory # 144027. Signed by Author(s).…