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The cancer finishing school : lessons in laughter, love and resilience
Goldsworthy, Peter, 1951-2024
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Click and Collect for The cancer finishing school : lessons in laughter, love and resilienceWhat lessons might cancer teach him before it finishes him off? Peter Goldsworthy asks, obliquely. A GP of forty years' practice, as well as one of Australia's most awarded and celebrated writers, Goldsworthy ('Doctor Pete' to his patients) brings his characteristic black humour and storytelling power to the tale of his own cancer journey. Accidentally diagnosed after a scan of his dicky knee, he was thrown into a world that he knew only too well from the other side: a world that soon shrank to hospital visits, sleepless and hyped-up nights on dexamethasone and life-saving chemotherapy. Never one to waste a story, Peter intersperses his own experience with odd and astonishing case stories of patients and literary friends who have trodden the same path: both cautionary tales and exemplary tales, sometimes laugh-out-loud, sometimes deeply moving, that intersect with, or refract, his own travels through denial, acceptance, treatment and survival. Darkly funny, and filled with growing love and wonder, The Cancer Finishing School offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness.
Main title:
The cancer finishing school : lessons in laughter, love and resilience / Peter Goldsworthy.
Author:
Goldsworthy, Peter, 1951-, author
Imprint:
[London] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2024.©2024
Collation:
318 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
97817613407729781761340772
Dewey class:
616.9940092610.92A828.4616.994
Language:
English
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BRN:
551498
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 616.994 GOL | Onloan - Due: 29 May 2024 |
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 616.994 GOL | On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 26 Apr 2024) |
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 616.994 GOL | Onloan - Due: 24 May 2024 |
| Hampton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 616.994 GOL | On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 29 Apr 2024) |
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