Dying: A Memoir - Couverture rigide

Taylor, Cory

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1782119760 ISBN 13 : 9781782119760

Editeur : Canongate Books, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

At the age of sixty, Cory is 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 in the space of a few weeks.

Dying is a brief and clear-eyed account of what dying has 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.

Revue de presse :

"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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Canongate Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1782119760
• ISBN 13: 9781782119760
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160