Radiation Diaries: Cancer, Memory and Fragments of a Life in Words - Couverture souple

Todd, Janet M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1909572179 ISBN 13 : 9781909572171

Editeur : Fentum Press, 2018

Synopsis

'Janet Todd's pain-filled interweaving of life and literature is a good book written against the odds - it is frank, wry and unexpectedly heartening' Hilary Mantel Exquisitely written diary of radiation treatment for pelvic cancers that delves into literary consciousness, feminism, memory and an unquiet past. Beautifully written, viscerally honest, horribly funny. Miriam Margolyes Fascinating. A literary masterpiece, inventing a genre. Lyndall Gordon, author of Virginia Woolf: A Writer s Life; Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and her Family's Feuds and Outsiders: Five Women Who Changed the World

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Janet Todd, novelist (A Man of Genus, 2016) and internationally renowned scholar, was President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and a Professor at Douglass College, Rutgers, NJ and at the University of Florida. An expert on women's writing and feminism and founder of the journal, Women's Writing, she has published biographies and critical work on many authors, including Jane Austen, the Shelley Circle, Mary Wollstonecraft and Aphra Behn (Aphra Behn: A Secret Life, 2017). Now an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and Professor Emerita at the University of Aberdeen, she lives in Cambridge and Venice, and is completing her third novel, Don't You Know There's a War On? (forthcoming, 2019).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fentum Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1909572179
• ISBN 13: 9781909572171
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible