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1. www.survivornet.com › articles › you-are-not-alone-6You Are Not Alone — 6 Inspiring Cancer Memoirs to Help ...

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   Dec 26, 2023 · Whether you’re looking for someone to tell you the cold hard facts, or read a story to lift your spirits, it’s out there. Here 6 remarkable cancer memoirs, each different in tone and story, and each uniquely able to teach, comfort and guide.

2. www.spectator.co.uk › article › the-diary-of-a-dyingThe diary of a dying man: Graham Caveney’s poignant cancer memoir

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   The diary of a dying man: Graham Caveney’s poignant cancer memoir. With months to live, Caveney looks back on his childhood, muses on favourite writers, decries NHS underfunding and rejoices in...

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4. www.nytimes.com › 2019/09/10 › books‘The Undying,’ an Extraordinary and Furious New Memoir About ...

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   Sep 10, 2019 · Boyer’s extraordinary and furious new book, “The Undying,” is partly a memoir of her illness, diagnosed five years ago; she was 41 years old when she learned that the lump in her breast was...

5. www.goodreads.com › book › showDying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death,

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   Mar 1, 2012 · In this truly inspirational memoir , Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body—overwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her system—began shutting down.

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6. www.goodreads.com › book › showWhen Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi | Goodreads

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   Jan 12, 2016 · For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question 'What makes a life worth living?'.

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7. theconversation.com › in-his-entertaining-cancerIn his entertaining cancer memoir, Peter Goldsworthy explores ...

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   Mar 5, 2024 · Award-winning, much-loved Australian writer Peter Goldsworthy is better equipped than most to write an illness memoir: he’s also a GP.

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   Should you read a cancer memoir?

   • Friends, family and support groups can all help fill this need, but there’s another way, as well. Cancer memoirs, written by those who have been on the journey, can illuminate your own in unexpected, and often moving, ways. Whether you’re looking for someone to tell you the cold hard facts, or read a story to lift your spirits, it’s out there.

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   What is illness memoir?

   • Illness memoir is based on a tension between the general and the particular. The writer presents (to use a medical term) as both representing all sufferers of a particular malady – in this case, myeloma – and a unique individual experiencing a specific, unrepeatable event.

   In his entertaining cancer memoir, Peter Goldsworthy explores the

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   Is dying to be me a good book?

   • Namely, that "Dying to be Me" is a book ideally suited for people who are on a spiritual path as opposed to a religious path.

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   Is Goldsworthy's illness memoir metaphorical?

   • One of the notable aspects of Goldsworthy’s illness memoir is how self-conscious it is with regard to metaphor. He shows how the realm of the literal (illness, bodily death) swarms (to be metaphorical) with metaphor.

   In his entertaining cancer memoir, Peter Goldsworthy explores the

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   What is the most irresponsible statement about cancer?

   • The first and perhaps most profound irresponsible statement is the position that she would be able to CURE her cancer simply by opening herself to her own magnificence and making it so through her own thought processes.

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   How can a community help a person with cancer?

   • These remarkable books share the challenges of a disease that changes lives in an instant. For anyone facing cancer themselves or the diagnosis of someone close to them, finding a community to lean on can be life changing. Friends, family and support groups can all help fill this need, but there’s another way, as well.

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9. www.npr.org › 2021/02/09 › 965693636'Between Two Kingdoms' Tells A Story Of Survival - NPR

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   Feb 9, 2021 · A new book by Suleika Jaouad, author of the column "Life, Interrupted," encompasses a less familiar tale of what it's like to survive cancer and have to figure out how to live again in its...