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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]