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Cancer on Five Dollars a Day (chemo not included)
Robert Schimmel
How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life
Da Capo Lifelong Books
January 2009
On Sale: January 5, 2009
224 pages ISBN: 0738213187 EAN: 9780738213187 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
In the spring of 2000, stand-up comedian Robert Schimmel
was diagnosed with stage III non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and
soon the fire of his white-hot career started to fizzle.
But Schimmel never lost his sense of humor, his searing
honesty, and most of all, his passion to make people laugh.
Indeed, it was his basic need to entertain—even if the only
people around him were suffering from cancer and the room
he was playing was the Mayo Clinic infusion center—that
carried him through his ordeal. Alternately laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving, Cancer
on $5 a Day is a stirring account of how one man’s face-off
with a deadly disease helped him better understand himself,
and ultimately changed his life.
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