Don't Die of Embarrassment
Subtitle: Life After Colostomy and Other Adventures
Edition: 1st Fireside Ed edition
Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
Published: March 18, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780684846248
Subjects: Coping with personal problems; Medicine: General Issues; Oncology; United States; Patients; Entertainment & Performing Arts - Actors & Actresses; Women; Gastrointestinal Cancer; Rectum; Self-Help; Biography / Autobiography; Health/Fitness; Health; Specific Groups - General; Medical / Healing; Biography; Popular works; General; Actors; Barrie, Barbara; Cancer; Colostomy
First sentence: I have a deep, unreasonable desire to own a picture by William Merritt Chase, the American artist who painted scenes of eastern Long Island: the shimmering blue-black ponds; beautiful children in white dresses playing in the sand, their mothers sitting on blankets, ruffled parasols held over their heads to protect them from the golden sun of an August afternoon.