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| Author | Anne Boyer |
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| Audio read by | Amy Finegan[1] |
| Cover artist | Strick&Williams[2] |
| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | 17 September 2019 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 308/320 (first edition)[3] |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction |
| ISBN | 978-0-374-27934-9 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 1089841413 |
| 616.99/4490092 B | |
| LC Class | RC280.B8 B645 2019 |
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care is a 2019 non-fiction book by the American author, poet, and essayist, Anne Boyer. The memoir chronicles Boyer's experience as a breast cancer patient. Boyer takes an untraditional approach to the standard illness narrative, by weaving together her personal journey as a patient in treatment with reflections on art and literature, and critiques of capitalism and the medical industry.
It 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."[5]
- ^ "The Undying". OverDrive. Archived from the original on 24 April 2024. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
- ^ "The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer". The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Boyer, Anne (2019). The undying: pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care (1st ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-27934-9. Archived from the original on 24 April 2024. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- ^ "Announcing the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists". PEN America. 28 January 2020. Archived from the original on 30 January 2022. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
- ^ "Anne Boyer". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 24 April 2024.