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, paralysing 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 and humour, The Two Kinds of Decay transcends the very notion of what an account of illness can and should be.
| ISBN: | 9781847083098 |
| Publication date: | 2nd February 2012 |
| Author: | Sarah Manguso |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Genres: |
Memoirs Coping with / advice about illness and specific health conditions |
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, paralysing 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 and humour, The Two Kinds of Decay transcends the very notion of what an account of illness can and should be.
The Two Kinds of Decay features in the following genres: Memoirs, Coping with / advice about illness and specific health conditions
The Two Kinds of Decay is available in Paperback
The Two Kinds of Decay was written by Sarah Manguso and published by Granta Books
The Two Kinds of Decay has 192 pages