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A Biography, Medicine, Biography Memoir book. I like adjectives. A lot. So I will toss out a few in lieu...
Joshua Cody, a brilliant young composer, was about to receive his PhD when he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. Facing a bone-marrow transplant and full radiation, he charts his struggle: the fury, the tendency to self-destruction, and the ruthless grasping for life and sensation; the encounter with a strange woman on Canal Street that leads to sex at his apartment; the detailed morphine fantasy complete with a bride called Valentina while, in reality, hospital staff are pinning him to his bed. Moving effortlessly between references to Don Giovanni and the Rolling Stones, Ezra Pound and Buffalo Bill, and facsimiles of his own diaries and hospital notebooks, [sic] is a cross between Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor and Jay McInerny's Bright Lights, Big City: a mesmerizing, hallucinatory glimpse into a young man's battle against disease and a celebration of art, language, music, and life.
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- Pages: 272 pages
- ISBN: 9780393081060 / 0
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I like adjectives. A lot. So I will toss out a few in lieu of an intelligent review of this book: moving, funny, devastating, intelligent, honest, sad, life-affirming, musical (referring to the prose styling and the effective repetition of images/phrases), awesome. My friend Josh has written something extraordinary. Probably not for everyone, but more than once, in fact a lot more than once, he got me. The 'Sister Morphine' chapter alone demonstrates an understanding of tone and structure that few writers have achieved. Yes, the book is a memoir about surviving cancer treatment (that phrase is... I thoroughly enjoyed this book, though there were moments where I felt like I had accidentally ended up in an upscale lounge somewhere where men wear $2000 suits, and drink $1000 bottles of wine and discuss their art collections, and where they invested their fortunes. (In short, privileged and over educated, and unaware of their own...
