Dying: A Memoir
Cory Taylor is one of Australia’s celebrated novelists, the author of the brilliant Me and Mr Booker (winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Pacific region), and My Beautiful Enemy (shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award).At the age of sixty, she is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer....
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Cory Taylor is one of Australia’s celebrated novelists, the author of the brilliant Me and Mr Booker (winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Pacific region), and My Beautiful Enemy (shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award).At the age of sixty, she is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Her illness is no longer treatable. As she tells us in her remarkable last book,
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781925355772
Publisher: Text Publishing
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
If anyone is interested in reading about treatments and/or how the patient is coping then this book isn't the one because it is far more biographical with more about her parents than herself. If the reader is interested in her life then choose it for that reason.
https://msarki.tumblr.com/post/154283753723/dying-a-memoir-by-cory-taylorThe accident of birth is just that. And so is everything that happens afterwards, or so it seems to me…Cory Taylor died at age sixty in July of 2016, but not before finishing this important book that details her life beginning...