The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
Written by Anne Boyer
Narrated by Amy Finegan
4.5/5
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Editor's Note
Pulitzer Prize winner…
“The Undying” was on of two winners for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. It’s “an elegant and unforgettable narrative about the brutality of illness and the capitalism of cancer care in America,” wrote the prize’s judges.
Anne Boyer
Anne Boyer is a poet and essayist. She was the inaugural winner of the 2018 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and winner of the 2018 Whiting Award in nonfiction/poetry. Her books include A Handbook of Disappointed Fate as well as several books of poetry, including the 2016 CLMP Firecracker Award–winning Garments Against Women. She was born and raised in Kansas, and was educated in its public schools and libraries. Since 2011, Boyer has been a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Reviews for The Undying
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A gut wrenching, thought provoking book that studies pain, mortality, medical treatments and illness in general centering on the author's own life and her battle against breast cancer.. Although she obviously survives this is not a feel good book. Being a poet and a teacher she does a tremendous amount of historical research on breast cancer and death going all the way back to the Greeks. She emphasized John Donne's poetry in particular. She is laser focused in her indictment of our current health care system and its inadequacy for patients like she was. A very important book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a brilliant, brave, and harrowing book.