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Diary of a detour / Lesley Stern ; with illustrations by Amy Adler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stern, Lesley, author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Writing matters! (Duke University Press)
- Writing matters!
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stern, Lesley.
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia--Patients--Biography.
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
- Authors, Australian--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, Australian.
- Patients.
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia--Treatment.
- Cancer--Psychological aspects.
- Cancer.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 361 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
- data file
- Summary:
- "Diary of a Detour is film scholar and author Lesley Stern's memoir of living with cancer, where she chronicles the fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable disease and turns to alternative obsessions and pleasures, from travel and friendships to her four chickens."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chickens saved my life
- The time it takes (by way of an introduction)
- Secret
- A possum fate (averted)
- Events unfold in the snow
- Chicken feet
- Why chickens or homage to Gloria
- Boomerang
- A way of making another egg
- Shivers and shakes
- The chicken or the egg
- Strawberry/fetish
- Life after life
- The poetry of pigs
- Some musings on metaphor
- Tricking the body
- Chicken joke
- Nice paint job
- Frenzied calm
- Tokhm-e morgh
- Disability
- Why me Lord?
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Stern, Lesley. Diary of a detour.
- ISBN:
- 9781478012290
- 1478012293
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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