Miriam Engelberg

Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person

A Memoir in Comics

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Produktbeschreibung

a cartoonist examines her experience with breast cancer in an irreverent and humorous graphic memoir.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9780060789732
• ISBN-10: 0060789735
• Artikelnr.: 21265413

Autorenporträt

Miriam Engelberg was forty-three when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Like anyone faced with a life-altering personal trauma, she sought out a coping mechanism. While fellow patients championed the benefits of support groups and hypnotherapy, Engelberg found her greatest comfort in drawing, her lifelong passion. Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person puts Engelberg's life in focus the best way she knows how -- with cartoons. Her graphic approach to a very serious subject follows in the tradition of Art Spiegelman's award-winning Maus, but in her own offbeat, on-target, and darkly, devastatingly humorous style. From sex and wigs to nausea and causes -- Was it overzealous cheese consumption or not enough multivitamins? -- Engelberg leaves no aspect of cancer unexamined. In this remarkable "memoir in comics," she takes a clear-eyed, deliciously sardonic look at caring friends and relatives, doctors, treatments, and support groups while never losing her guarded optimism and, most important, her sense of humor.