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Kirkus Reviews called it "a small, liberating book that could become the cancer patient's Common Sense." [ 10 ] The literary critic Denis Donoghue of The New York Times gave the book a negative review, describing it as "a deeply personal book pretending for the sake of decency to be a thesis."
The book won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the PEN America's Jean Stein Book Award. [4] The Pulitzer committee described the book as "an elegant and unforgettable narrative about the brutality of illness and the capitalism of cancer care in America."
Those who have died are said to have lost their "battle with cancer", while the living are described as "fighting cancer". While the use of metaphors can help physicians explain cancer in a way that is understood by patients, it has been argued that words such as battle and fight are inappropriate, as they suggest that cancer can be defeated if ...
Sleeping Beauties. Around the world a sleeping sickness plunges women into a strange, cocooned state. If awakened, they turn homicidal. King and his son screw this global story down to a small ...
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It was a shameful and stigmatized condition, and was often omitted from obituaries and concealed from as many people as possible. Often, it was perceived to be a curse or a punishment. Sontag claims that AIDS has taken over on all counts, and that AIDS patients now suffer the same, or worse, judgment and stigmatization that cancer patients once ...
Sarah Ferguson, King Charles, Kate Middleton. Getty Images (3) Sarah Ferguson remains in good spirits as she continues to battle cancer. “This evening I am doing very well. I think that we’ve ...
Lucy Grealy. Lucinda Margaret Grealy (June 3, 1963 – December 18, 2002) was an Irish-American poet and memoirist who wrote Autobiography of a Face in 1994. This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early adolescent experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with some facial disfigurement.