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| Author | Anne Boyer |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Amy Finegan |
| Series | English |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2020)[1] |
| ISBN | 978-0-374-27934-9 |
| OCLC | 1089841413 |
| 616.994490092 | |
| LC Class | RC280.B8 |
| All identifiers refer to the US hardcover edition unless otherwise noted | |
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care is a book by Anne Boyer that was initially published on September 17, 2020 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States and as The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness by the Penguin Random House imprint Allen Lane in the United Kingdom.
Background[edit]
Overview[edit]
Reception[edit]
According to the view aggregation website Book Marks, the book has received critical acclaim; of the twenty reviews analyzed, eighteen are marked as "rave" while the other two are "positive".[2]
Awards and honors[edit]
The book received the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction[1] and was a finalist for the 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.[3] Boyer went on to win the 2020 Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction for her work, including The Undying.[4]
The book was named one of "100 Must-Read Books of 2019" in the "Memoir & Essays" section by Time Magazine[5]
Publication history[edit]
US editions[edit]
- Boyer, Anne. The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care (1st ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-27934-9. OCLC 1089841413. (hardcover)
- Boyer, Anne. The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care (1st ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-1-250-75798-2. OCLC 1194593422. (paperback)
- Boyer, Anne. The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care (1st ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-71948-7. OCLC 1120048392. (eBook)
UK editions[edit]
- Boyer, Anne (17 September 2020). The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0-241-39972-9. OCLC 1108743380. (hardcover)
- Boyer, Anne (8 September 2020). The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0-141-99085-9. OCLC 1137806638. (paperback)
- Boyer, Anne (17 September 2020). The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0-241-39973-6. OCLC 1108743380. (eBook)
- Boyer, Anne (17 September 2020), The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness, Finegan, Amy, London: Allen Lane, ISBN 978-0-241-43577-9, OCLC 1131818186 (Audiobook)
Recorded Books[edit]
- Boyer, Anne, The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care, Finegan, Amy, Prince Frederick, Md.: Recorded Books, ISBN 978-1-9800-4291-4, OCLC 1120107761 (CD)
- Boyer, Anne, The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care, Finegan, Amy, Prince Frederick, Md.: Recorded Books, ISBN 978-1-9800-6121-2, OCLC 1120120206 (MP3-CD)
- Boyer, Anne, The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care, Finegan, Amy, Prince Frederick, Md.: Recorded Books, ISBN 978-1-9800-4301-0, OCLC 1114895698 (DD)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care, by Anne Boyer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)". Pulitzer. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
- ^ https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/all/the-undying-pain-vulnerability-mortality-medicine-art-time-dreams-data-exhaustion-cancer-and-care/
- ^ "PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalists Include Anne Boyer and Ilya Kaminsky by Harriet Staff". Poetry Foundation. 2020-12-19. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
- ^ "Anne Boyer". Windham Campbell Prizes. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
- ^ "The 100 Must-Read Books of 2019". Time. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
Further reading[edit]
- Laing, Olivia (2019-10-18). "The Undying and Notes Made While Falling review – how to write about being ill". The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
- Gleeson, Sinéad (8 October 2020). "The Undying". The Stinging Fly. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
- Hermann, Nellie. "Cancer Under Capitalism". ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
- Miller, Nancy K. (2019-10-22). "Cancer and Its Metaphors". Jewish Currents. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
- Berlant, Lauren (6 September 2019). "The Undying". 4columns.org. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
- Iwai, Yoshiko (2020-10-16). "A Breast Cancer Experience Re-narrated: The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019". Journal of Medical Humanities. doi:10.1007/s10912-020-09669-9. ISSN 1573-3645.
- Kolbe, Laura (2020-01-07). "Styles of Radical Illness". The Yale Review. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
- Ronan, Alex (2019-09-16). "An Astonishing New Cancer Memoir Brings Radical Politics to the Genre". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
- "'The Undying' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2019". Time Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
- "The Undying by Anne Boyer Read by Amy Finegan". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
- Adler, Natalie (2019-09-11). "Why Does Sickness Feel So Isolating When Everyone is Sick?". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/books/times-critics-top-books-of-2019.html
- https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/books/2020/12/31/best-books-2020/160829640010886#hrd
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/new-in-paperback-13-september-releases-worth-reading/2020/09/28/252918ea-fd10-11ea-b555-4d71a9254f4b_story.html
- https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/the-best-books-to-read-in-selfisolation-nick-hornby-raven-smith-a4402001.html
- https://parade.com/1028902/kaylen-ralph/books-to-read-during-quarantine/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/books/pulitzer-prize-books.html
- https://aux.avclub.com/what-are-you-reading-in-october-1839062706
- https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/lost-to-myself/
- https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-undying-deeply-thought-provoking-account-of-living-with-cancer-1.4012719
- https://harpers.org/archive/2019/11/new-books-november-2019/
- Stacy Shaw (1 August 2018) The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care https://www.libraryjournal.com/?reviewDetail=the-undying-pain-vulnerability-mortality-medicine-art-time-dreams-data-exhaustion-cancer-and-care