Reading and Writing Cancer: How Words Heal

by Susan Gubar

Book Overview

Elaborating upon her "Living with Cancer" column in the New York Times, Susan Gubar helps patients, caregivers, and the specialists who seek to serve them. In a book both enlightening and practical, she describes how the activities of reading and writing can right some of cancer's wrongs. To stimulate the writing process, she proposes specific exercises, prompts, and models. In discussions of the diary of Fanny Burney, the stories of Leo Tolstoy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393246981
• ISBN13: 9780393246988
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"