Publication

2008 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

46,000 words, Guess

Page Count

184 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • DDC362.196/8560092
  • DDCB
  • LCCRC416 .M36 2008
and 1 more
  • LCCRC416.M36 2008

Description

"At twenty-one, just starting to comprehend the usual puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with yet another: a wildly unpredictable autoimmune disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralyzing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life, and then, furiously, to expect everything ... Manguso recounts her struggle: blood cleansings, collapsed veins, multiple chest catheters, depression ... and worst of all for a writer, the trite metaphors that accompany prolonged illness."--Back cover.

Subjects

Topics

HealthPatientsBiographyPsychologyDepressionDrug therapyWomen authors

Places

People

Sarah Manguso (1974-)

Genres

  • Biography

Other Editions

  • The two kinds of decayFarrar, Straus and Giroux2008-01-01

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