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ISBN-10: 022646802X
ISBN-13: 9780226468020
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publish Date: 03/21/2017
Dimensions: 8.30" L, 5.40" W, 0.30" H

Diary of Our Fatal Illness

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Overview

This moving prose poem tells the story of an aged man who suffers a prolonged and ultimately fatal illness. From initial diagnosis to remission to relapse to death, the experience is narrated by the man’s son, a practicing doctor. Charles Bardes, a physician and poet, draws on years of experience with patients and sickness to construct a narrative that links myth, diverse metamorphoses, and the modern mechanics of death. We stand with the doctors, the family, and, above all, a sick man and his disease as their voices are artfully crafted into a new and powerful language of illness.

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"Poet and physician Charles Bardes presents a work of prose poetry with elements of eulogy, ode, and tragedy as he follows his father's grievous two-year battle with cancer....In this challenging book of a father and son confronting disease and death, Bardes questions closely what it means for life to lend itself to death."– "Booklist"
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Details

ISBN-10: 022646802X
ISBN-13: 9780226468020
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publish Date: 03/21/2017
Dimensions: 8.30" L, 5.40" W, 0.30" H
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