One Hundred Autobiographies A Memoir / David Lehman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lehman, David, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lehman, David, 1948-.

Poets, American.

Health.

Bladder--Cancer--Patients.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"A memoir of a year in the life of the author while he battled cancer"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

83 A Routine Visit84 Doctor Jew; 85 "Except for the cancer . . ."; 86 The Heart Knows; 87 A Black Dress; 88 Heisenberg as Hero; 89 Cheers!; 90 Walter Lehmann; 91 Rowing in Eden; 92 I Remember Mama; 93 No Regrets; 94 If I Could; 95 The Scar; 96 The Secret; 97 Like a Hurricane; 98 In the Eyes of the Beholder; 99 Champagne Cocktails; 100 In the Swim

56 Recovery Room57 The Rebbe; 58 Life Begins at Forty; 59 Search for Meaning; 60 The Old Religion; 61 The Problem of Evil; 62 Dean Martin's Hat; 63 740 Francs; 64 Shalom Aleichem Rides to the Rescue; 65 The Arrival of the Messiah; 66 Sabbath Services; 67 A Complicated Guy; 68 The Patient Next to You; 69 Cambridge; 70 Armistice Day, 1970; 71 The Sublime Pain of Being; 72 The Glass Skeleton; 73 Why Does the Bridge Not Progress?; 74 Q & A; 75 Ludlowville, 1981; 76 Bio Note (Alt.); 77 Wedding Ceremony; 78 Moscow, 2007; 79 Group Therapy; 80 Fort Tryon Park; 81 A Fine Invention; 82 Identity Theft

26 Metaport27 If You Were an English Poet; 28 The Regimen; 29 A Few Beacons in the Quicksand; 30 What's the Story?; 31 Time Is on My Side; 32 Rush Job; 33 Final Call; 34 And Then You Crash; 35 Chemo; 36 Roid Rage; 37 Under the Garden; 38 The End; 39 Falling in Love Again; 40 Nothingness; 41 Syllabus; 42 Commencement Speech; 43 The Exquisite Corpse; 44 The Editorial "We"; 45 Oblivion; 46 Dostoyevsky; 47 The Spiritual Connection; 48 "Myself, When Stoned"; 49 Bloomsday; 50 Tom Collins; 51 The Admissions Officer; 52 Columbia; 53 Classic Koch; 54 The Poem Team; 55 Shakespeare's Birthday

One Hundred Autobiographies; Contents; Preface; 1 Execution Poem Expert; 2 Spots of Time; 3 Cafe Loup; 4 No Big Deal; 5 Cancer Alley; 6 The Crisis; 7 The Aftermath; 8 The Procedure; 9 The Protocol; 10 The Good Kind; 11 The Diarist; 12 None But the Strong; 13 Tropic of Cancer; 14 Hospitals and Airports; 15 Back to the Waiting Room; 16 "Hurry up, please, it's time"; 17 Why 1963?; 18 Good Friday; 19 Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate!; 20 The Weekend Before; 21 "Bladder cancer: Isn't that what Sinatra died of?"; 22 In a Technical Sense; 23 Five O'Clock Rush; 24 A Heart Event; 25 Good Show

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501746468

1501746464

9781501746475

1501746472

OCLC:

1099539471