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A True Story
Knopf
October 2006
On Sale: September 26, 2006
224 pages
ISBN: 0307263576
EAN: 9780307263575
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
“What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed,
wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic,
single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city girl
cartoonist with a fabulous life finds . . . a lump in her
breast?” That’s the question that sets this powerful, funny,
and poignant graphic memoir in motion. In vivid color and
with a taboo-breaking sense of humor, Marisa Acocella
Marchetto tells the story of her eleven-month, ultimately
triumphant bout with breast cancer—from diagnosis to cure,
and every challenging step in between.
But Cancer
Vixen is about more than surviving an illness. It is a
portrait of one woman’s supercharged life in Manhattan, and
a wonderful love story. Marisa, self-described “terminal
bachelorette,” meets her Prince Charming in Silvano, owner
of the chic downtown restaurant Da Silvano. Three weeks
before their wedding, she receives her diagnosis. She
wonders: How will he react to this news? How will my world
change? Will I even survive? And . . . what about my
hair?
From raucous New Yorker staff lunches
and the star-studded crowd at Silvano’s restaurant to the
rainbow pumps Marisa wears to chemotherapy, Cancer
Vixen is a total original. Marisa’s wit and courage
are an inspiration—she’s a cancer vixen, not its victim.
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