1978, ISBN: 9780394412900

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 242 Pages. No marks or stamps on this tight straight book. Dust jacket has unclipped price 8.95 and some bottom edge wear, and a 3/4 inch closed tear on… Plus…

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 242 Pages. No marks or stamps on this tight straight book. Dust jacket has unclipped price 8.95 and some bottom edge wear, and a 3/4 inch closed tear on the back. In the growing literature about death and dying, Violet Weingarten's wryly observed and moving account of herself as she faces her own intimations of mortality holds a special place. Just as her fiction always succeeded in capturing the particular flavor of the everyday, this journal allows us to feel, to really know, the actual --- the day-by-day manner in which living with cancer affects the texture of a woman's life, the ways in which she feels about herself, her family, her friends, her work. Violet Weingarten begins her journal after her first operation places her in the peculiar limbo of the temporarily cured cancer patient (I think I am well, I am sure I am well, and the thought of not being well never leaves my mind). As the weeks pass, the entries reveal how she copes with the endless round of doctors, X-rays, and blood tests; how she responds to the incessant reminders of cancer that crop up in the most ordinary conversations, in the news, even in plays, movies, TV programs meant to be funny. She rushes to read everything about dying, and although she soon realizes that no one knows how to, she confides to her journal the passages that mean the most to her. Ironies abound: she, on chemotherapy, and her daughter who is pregnant experience the same symptoms; she recalls herself at eighteen, blithely advising her grandmother not to be concerned about dying. And there are changes. Slowly, and in ways that are often surprising, her life re-evaluates itself. Feelings sharpen-toward a parent who will outlive her, toward her husband, toward her two grown daughters. The journal ends when the cancer returns. This is Violet Weingarten's last book. It is a testament of courage and dignity, of life prevailing over death. . First Edition Stated. Hard Back. Near Fine/Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"., Alfred A. Knopf, 1978<

ISBN: 0394412907

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ISBN: 0394412907

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1978, ISBN: 9780394412900

Hardcover book. 242 pages. Published by Random House Children's Books (1978) Media >, [PU: Grove Press]