Waltzing with Jack Dancer : a slow dance with cancer / poems by Geoff Goodfellow ; story by Grace Goodfellow ; images by Randy Larcombe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodfellow, Geoff.

Contributor:

Goodfellow, Grace.

Larcombe, Randy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer--Patients--Australia--Biography.

Cancer.

Goodfellow, Geoff, 1949-.

Goodfellow, Geoff.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (142 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Geoff Goodfellow is one of those rare people who says what he thinks, usually with a few expletives added. When he learned he had cancer, he told the disease what he thought of it and, like a boxer, prepared himself for the fight ahead. Yet Geoff is also a sensitive man' - Roy Eccleston

Contents:

Waltzing with Jack Dancer; Title page; Imprint page; Geoff Goodfellow's dedication; Contents; Foreword; No Small Matter; Blue Sky Mornings; Counting; The Calling; A Long Way from Lourdes; The Seventh Doctor; Maybe; Finding Myself; Time Bomb; Round One; Hospital Ship; Night Moves; Day & Night / Night & Day; Ticket to Ride; Onto the Spin Cycle; Begging Bowl; After Effects; Another Fight; Sip & Squirt; Triple Digits; Family History; Too Many Complaints; Reversing; The Day I Dropped Several e's; An Uncertain Future; The C Word; Grace Goodfellow's dedication; Prologue

And all of a sudden, Friday became the most significant day of the weekDishes and Daddy's lap; The Truth; And this is what I remember thinking:; So then what happened, was this; Tell me about the Seven Stages of Grief; Just keep the noise down, okay?; Good Friday; And then, it all just sort of ... kept on keeping on; Remember Love; 'You look like an elephant'; O-Town; Are You Old Enough; Lately, things have been changing; Happy Birthday, to you; Agggghhhhh!!!; Things That Can Give You Cancer; No, really, I wasn't kidding about the Friday thing; We'd been sitting, waiting, wishing; Let's go; Moo

That's a big damI'm so sleeeeeeepy; Ouch; School and stuff; Otorhinolaryngology; Can I see some ID, thanks?; We made 30 and everyone was proud; The next little bit; Noble Avenue; Epilogue; Geoff Goodfellow bio; Grace Goodfellow bio; Randy Larcombe bio; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-74305-035-6

OCLC:

759101480