Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060789732 (0060789735)
ASIN: 0060789735
Publish date: 2006-04-25
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
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Well, for a totally different perspective from Crazy Sexy Cancer, a collection of cartoons with a depressed and ironic view towards cancer. And yet this works too -- obviously you can't be upbeat all the time and it is a realistic depiction, particularly of a lot of the social aspects. Recommended o...
I've never had cancer and I've never known anyone well who has had cancer, but, just as a regular person, I found this book genuine, funny, sad, clever, dark, and (contrary to the title) a little deep. Engelberg tells the story of her sudden immersion into the world of the cancer victim and the canc...