The Red Devil : A Memoir About Beating The Odds
When Katherine Russell Rich was 32, a newly divorced magazine editor living in New York City, her 10-year ordeal with cancer began. Soon she was bald, scrambled, and living in two worlds simultaneously: the world of the ill, of treatments, exhaustion, and doctors focused on avoiding malpractice...
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When Katherine Russell Rich was 32, a newly divorced magazine editor living in New York City, her 10-year ordeal with cancer began. Soon she was bald, scrambled, and living in two worlds simultaneously: the world of the ill, of treatments, exhaustion, and doctors focused on avoiding malpractice suits; and the "normal" world, where dating, career, vacations, and 401(k) plans still mattered. Dazzling in its writing, The Red Devil is alternately wise and wise-cracking -- it is the story of a woman who has been brought to her knees several times, only to get up and learn to dance.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780609803240 (0609803247)
Publish date: September 26th 2000
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
I picked up this book again recently, after hearing about the author’s death almost 25 years after she was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer, and surprised myself by reading straight through it even though her experiences and the intelligent, almost poetic, but also trenchantly snarky way she wr...
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