Title: The two kinds of decay
Description: "At twenty-one, just starting to comprehend the usual puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with yet another: a wildly unpredictable autoimmune disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralyzing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life, and then, furiously, to expect everything ... Manguso recounts her struggle: blood cleansings, collapsed veins, multiple chest catheters, depression ... and worst of all for a writer, the trite metaphors that accompany prolonged illness."--Back cover.
Subjects: Guillain-Barré syndrome, Health, Patients, Biography, Guillain-barre syndrome, Women authors, Authors, american, Authors, biography, New York Times reviewed, Personal Narratives, Poets, biography, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy, Psychology, Depression, Drug therapy
Places: Great Britain
People: Sarah Manguso (1974-)