Because Cowards Get Cancer Too - Hardcover

Diamond, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812931777 ISBN 13: 9780812931778

Verlag: Times Books, 1998

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Book by Diamond John

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An informative, caustically funny memoir of a self-professed coward's battle against cancer presents a first-person account of coping with a cancer diagnosis, dealing with doctors, gathering information about the disease, informing friends, dealing with setbacks, and living with uncertainty.

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of such overwhelming statistical possibilities, hypochondria has always seemed to me to be the only rational position on life."

So begins this caustically funny and informative account of living with cancer from a self-professed coward who's nevertheless unafraid to take on the myths and taboos of the illness.
First diagnosed with cancer in March 1997, journalist John Diamond determined to chronicle the experience for the millions of people facing the same baffling process of diagnosis and treatment. His is a refreshingly clear-eyed take for those readers who likewise instinctively rebel when told that to "wage war with their cancer" they must chant, channel, laugh, breathe, group-hug, or sport a halo for sainthood or a medal for bravery. Diamond's is a distinctly more curmudgeonly stance.
With humor and intelligence, Diamond ex-
plains how he coped with dilemmas every person recently diagnosed with cancer must confront: the awkwardness of "telling&q

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• Verlag: Times Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0812931777
• ISBN 13: 9780812931778
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240