No Obvious Distress (eBook)

A John Murray Original

Amanda Quaid (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
John Murray Press (Verlag)
978-1-3998-2457-6 (ISBN)

Infos

'Funny, moving, wise and constantly surprising' Martin Chilton, Independent Memoir of the Month 'Astonishing. These poems glimmer with a white-hot beauty that is hard won, and that sings' Sarah Ruhl'Striking, surprising, and technically excellent, the poems resonate way beyond their endings' Roger RobinsonPatient is a normal appearing woman in no obvious distress.On an ordinary day, out with her three-year-old in the park, Amanda Quaid received a life-changing call - the back pain she had been living with for years was actually a rare and aggressive form of cancer. In an instant, life became a series of sterile rooms, medical charts and body-altering treatments which completely upend Amanda's marriage, work and family life as she knows it.Poetry became a lifeline for Amanda, a form to organize the chaos and pain of day-to-day life into order and beauty. In inventive and arresting poems that explore desire, marriage, motherhood and mortality, No Obvious Distress is a powerful memoir-in-verse about Amanda's unique experience. But it is also a tender, witty and universal collection that asks how we can continue to live and love in times of uncertainty.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.7.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• ISBN-10: 1-3998-2457-0 / 1399824570
• ISBN-13: 978-1-3998-2457-6 / 9781399824576