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Year of plagues : a memoir of 2020 / Fred D'Aguiar.
Van Pelt Library PR9320.9.D34 Z46 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- D'Aguiar, Fred, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- D'Aguiar, Fred, 1960-.
- D'Aguiar, Fred.
- Authors, Guyanese--21st century--Biography.
- Authors, Guyanese.
- Cancer--Patients--United States--Biography.
- Cancer.
- Cancer--Patients.
- United States.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.
- Two thousand twenty, A.D.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 323 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- Summary:
- Drawing from two cultural perspectives, an acclaimed British-Guyanese writer and award-winning poet combines personal reminiscence and philosophy to reflect on a year of personal and global crisis, as he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 2020. The world around D'Aguiar was shattered by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the United States, California burned... and D'Aguiar was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Here he confronts profound questions about the purpose of pursuing a life of writing and teaching in the face of overwhelming upheavals; the imaginative and artistic strategies a writer can bring to bear as his sense of self and community are severely tested; and the quest for strength and solace necessary to help forge a better future. The resulting memoir is a paean of resistance to despotic authority and life-threatening disease. -- adapted from jacket
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Out Of This Time
- 2. I Do Not Want To Alarm You
- 3. Is This What Dying Looks Like?
- 4. Fred, Do Not Be Afraid
- 5. You Are My Mortal Enemy
- 6. To Fall, Falling, And Never Land
- 7. Help Me, Anansi
- 8. What Brer Rabbit Did
- 9. Surely I'm to be Saved
- 10. Hello, Miss Corona. Meet Mister Cancer
- 11. The Maddening Pain
- 12. The City Is Dying
- 13. I Listen And Hear More
- 14. I Wake With His Name On My Tongue
- 15. As Long As I Draw Breath
- 16. Juneteenth.
- ISBN:
- 9780063091535
- 0063091534
- OCLC:
- 1261754184
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