![[sic] - Cody, Joshua](https://bilder.buecher.de/produkte/34/34427/34427075z.jpg "[sic] - Cody, Joshua")
Literarisch, halluzinatorisch und manchmal unangenehm zu lesen, dennoch eine Ode an die Kunst, die Sprache und das Leben. Kurz vor der Überreichung seines Doktortitels durch die Universität von Columbia, wurde bei Joshua Cody Krebs diagnostiziert. Er unterzog sich einer sechsmonatigen Chemotherapie, die jedoch fehlschlug. Nach Rücksprache mit mehreren Onkologen, ging er auf einen riskanten Kurs der hochdosierten Chemotherapie, Ganzkörper-Bestrahlung und einer autologen Knochenmarkstransplantation. Mit fiebriger Stimme schildert der Autor seinen atemberaubend kühnen Kampf gegen die Krankheit, die Wut, die manchmal bis zur Selbstzerstörung führen kann und bleibt in seiner Schilderung doch frisch und verführerisch, mutig und aufschlussreich.
A searingly honest, heartbreaking work of genius, this is a book about music, poetry, devastating illness, creativity, sex and drugs, and twenty-something life in New York
'Writing this rawly self-conscious has no business captivating you, let alone moving you. That it manages to do it anyway is a testament to Mr. Cody's talent, honesty, and singularity' Jonathan Franzen
'The memoir of the year. It's a sensorium, and a painful one, a book in which the sentences swing into you like small, gleaming axes ... He has a blazing intellect and can really write' New York Times, Books of the Year
Joshua Cody was about to receive his PhD from Columbia University when he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. He underwent six months of chemotherapy. The treatment failed. Expectations for survival plummeted. After consulting with several oncologists, he embarked on a risky course of high-dose chemotherapy, full body radiation, and an autologous bone marrow transplant.
In a fevered, mesmerising voice, slaloming effortlessly between references to Ezra Pound, The Rolling Stones and Beethoven, in a memoir that is as fresh and beguiling as it is brave and revealing he charts the struggle: the fury, the tendency to self-destruction, the ruthless grasping for life, for sensation.
Literary, hallucinatory and at times uncomfortable reading, [sic] is ultimately a celebration of art, language music and life.
A searingly honest, heartbreaking work of genius, this is a book about music, poetry, devastating illness, creativity, sex and drugs, and twenty-something life in New York
'Writing this rawly self-conscious has no business captivating you, let alone moving you. That it manages to do it anyway is a testament to Mr. Cody's talent, honesty, and singularity' Jonathan Franzen
'The memoir of the year. It's a sensorium, and a painful one, a book in which the sentences swing into you like small, gleaming axes ... He has a blazing intellect and can really write' New York Times, Books of the Year
Joshua Cody was about to receive his PhD from Columbia University when he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. He underwent six months of chemotherapy. The treatment failed. Expectations for survival plummeted. After consulting with several oncologists, he embarked on a risky course of high-dose chemotherapy, full body radiation, and an autologous bone marrow transplant.
In a fevered, mesmerising voice, slaloming effortlessly between references to Ezra Pound, The Rolling Stones and Beethoven, in a memoir that is as fresh and beguiling as it is brave and revealing he charts the struggle: the fury, the tendency to self-destruction, the ruthless grasping for life, for sensation.
Literary, hallucinatory and at times uncomfortable reading, [sic] is ultimately a celebration of art, language music and life.