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Picador
June 2009
On Sale: May 26, 2009
192 pages
ISBN: 0312428448
EAN: 9780312428440
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Non-Fiction Memoir
At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the
puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another:
a wildly unpredictable autoimmune disease that appeared
suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralyzing her for
weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing
from life and then, furiously, to expect everything. In this
captivating story, Manguso recalls her struggle: arduous
blood cleansings, collapsed veins, multiple chest catheters,
depression, the deaths of friends and strangers, addiction,
and, worst of all for a writer, the trite metaphors that
accompany prolonged illness. A book of tremendous grace, The
Two Kinds of Decay transcends the very notion of what an
illness story can and should be.
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