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Susan Gubar - Reading and Writing Cancer - How Words Heal - 9780393246988 - V9780393246988
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Reading and Writing Cancer - How Words Heal

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Description for Reading and Writing Cancer - How Words Heal Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: VF. Dimension: 218 x 147. Weight in Grams: 390.

Elaborating upon her “Living with Cancer” column in the New York Times, Susan Gubar helps patients, caregivers, and the specialists who seek to serve them. In a book both enlightening and practical, she describes how the activities of reading and writing can right some of cancer’s wrongs. To stimulate the writing process, she proposes specific exercises, prompts, and models. In discussions of the diary of Fanny Burney, the stories of Leo Tolstoy and Alice Munro, numerous memoirs, novels, paintings, photographs, and blogs, Gubar shows how readers can learn from art that deepens our comprehension of what it means to live ... Read more

From a writer whose own memoir, Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer, was described by the New York Times Book Review as “moving and instructive…and incredibly brave,” this volume opens a path to healing.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Language
English
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393246988
SKU
V9780393246988
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About Susan Gubar
Susan Gubar is an acclaimed memoirist and literary critic. Together with Sandra M. Gilbert, she was awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the NBCC. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Reviews for Reading and Writing Cancer - How Words Heal
"In this ambitious and inspiring book, her discussion
happily, in nonacademic language
combines with up-to-date research confirming that writing heals both mind and body. It adds up to a convincing argument that words heal, and you
even if you haven't written a thing since high school
can tap into the power of words."
Philadelphia Inquirer "[Gubar] has spent much of the past decade ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Reading and Writing Cancer - How Words Heal


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