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A Life Less Convenient: Letters to My Ex - Couverture souple

Burke, Jennifer Clare

 
9780985589202: A Life Less Convenient: Letters to My Ex
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0985589205 ISBN 13 : 9780985589202
Editeur : Homofactus Press, L.L.C., 2013

Synopsis

A book about lupus, love and sex. They say love conquers all, but that's a lie. Just ask the narrator of A Life Less Convenient: Letters to My Ex, whose story unfolds across dozens of letters to her ex. She wants to make her relationship work with D — but how can they stand a chance against the most selfish and obsessive lover, her own failing body? Hobbled by pain and fragility from a chronic disease, every day is a battle to remain herself, never mind love someone else. Yet she keeps trying. Because…how can she not? A Life Less Convenient speaks to both the beauty and the ugliness of chronic illness; the daily management, care and love of self in relation to disease and partnership; how illness becomes a needy and sometimes aggressive third partner in a relationship that can create both closeness and distance; and how we create, hold on to and renegotiate who we are in relation to illness. This expanded second edition includes seven new chapters, plus an appendix collecting for the first time Burke’s nonfiction essays on pathology and the body.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A book about lupus, love and sex. They say love conquers all, but that's a lie. Just ask the narrator of A Life Less Convenient: Letters to My Ex, whose story unfolds across dozens of letters to her ex. She wants to make her relationship work with D — but how can they stand a chance against the most selfish and obsessive lover, her own failing body? Hobbled by pain and fragility from a chronic disease, every day is a battle to remain herself, never mind love someone else. Yet she keeps trying. Because...how can she not? A Life Less Convenient speaks to both the beauty and the ugliness of chronic illness; the daily management, care and love of self in relation to disease and partnership; how illness becomes a needy and sometimes aggressive third partner in a relationship that can create both closeness and distance; and how we create, hold on to and renegotiate who we are in relation to illness. This expanded second edition includes seven new chapters, plus an appendix collecting for the first time Burke’s nonfiction essays on pathology and the body.

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Éditeur
Homofactus Press, L.L.C.
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0985589205
ISBN 13 
9780985589202
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
190
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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