Jeffrey Penn May

Eight Billion Steps: My Impossible Quest For Cancer Comedy (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

NEW 2023 EDITION. Ten years later after... new material.

"Eight Billion Steps: My Impossible Quest For Cancer Comedy" is about (as may seem obvious) finding humor in cancer. After Jeff was diagnosed with an extremely large and rare salivary gland tumor on the back of his tongue, throat and jaw, he and his wife began their fun-filled search for treatment. Eight Billion Steps is Jeff's life-affirming odyssey, told with honesty and humor, interspersed with moments of terror.

"This book was going to be Two Hundred Steps, My Fight Against Cancer, but the title seemed too generic for what was percolating in my sometimes painfully clear mind. So I changed it from the typical to the absurd, and I have been struggling with my quest ever since."

Jeffrey Penn May has won several short fiction awards, received a Pushcart Prize nomination for his creative nonfiction and was a Landmark Prize finalist for his literary novella, Margery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jeffrey Penn May
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781301804931
• Artikelnr.: 47425615

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Penn May has won several short fiction awards. His story "The Wells Creek Route" received a Pushcart Prize nomination, and his novel Where the River Splits, an excellent review in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Merging his outdoor interests with his writing, Jeff has published mountain climbing articles, short stories and poems. He has also written education articles and technical writing guides. His work has appeared in the US, UK, and Canada. He wrote and performed a short story for Washington University Radio and was a consultant to a St. Louis theatre company.

After earning his a B.A. in English and Psychology, a Masters in Secondary Education, and a Writer's Certificate from the University of Missouri, Jeff worked as a waiter, hotel security officer, credit manager, deck hand, technical data engineer, creative writing instructor, and English teacher. He was the principal of a small alternative school where he organized a fund-raising, climbing expedition and appeared in television and radio spotlights.

Born at Fort Ord near Monterey, California, and raised in St. Louis, Jeff comes from a family of all boys and has always been compelled to explore the outdoors, leading to many questionable "vacations." His adventures include, but are not limited to the following: floated a home-built wood and barrel raft from St. Louis to Memphis, navigated a John boat to New Orleans, drove an old Volkswagen alone 8000 miles around the west, spent a month in a dirt floor shack in west-central Mexico digging for Pre-Colombian artifacts, climbed mountains from Alaska to South America, and spent several days in the Amazon jungle. Jeff teaches writing near St. Louis. Please visit www.askwritefish.com.