Called back
Subtitle: my reply to cancer, my return to life
By: Mary Cappello
Publisher: Alyson; Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781593501501
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Health; Breast; Cancer; Patients; Psychology; Rehabilitation; Psychological aspects; Biography
Description: In her intensely personal and insightful memoir, Mary Cappello wonders aloud for us what breast cancer awareness really makes us aware of, and responds as if for the first time to the deceivingly simple command: "tell me what you're feeling." Unable to eat on chemotherapy, Cappello feasts on the paintings of Marsden Hartley, yearns in the tradition of Emily Dickinson and Gertrude Stein, keeps company with Marcel Proust, and lets queer artists tease her back to life. Called Back looks through the lens of cancer to discover--often with humor--new truths about intimacy and essential solitude, eroticism, the fact of the body, and the impossibility of turning away.