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Dying: A Memoir by Taylor, Cory

ISBN: 9781925355772 PUBLISHER: The Text Publishing Company FORMAT: Hardback PAGES: 160 PUBLICATION DATE: 16.05.2016 DIMENSIONS: 21.9 x 15.8 x 1.9 centimetres

DESCRIPTION: Cory Taylor is one of Australia's celebrated novelists, the author of the brilliant Me and Mr Booker (winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Pacific region), and My Beautiful Enemy (shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award). At the age of sixty, she is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Her illness is no longer treatable. As she tells us in her remarkable last book, Dying: A Memoir, she now weighs less than her neighbour's retriever. Written in the space of a few weeks, in a tremendous creative surge, this powerful and beautifully written book is a clear-eyed account of what dying has taught Cory: she describes the tangle of her feelings, she reflects on her life, and she remembers the lives and deaths of her parents. She tells us why she would like to be able to choose the circumstances of her own death. Dying: A Memoir is a breathtaking book about vulnerability and strength, courage and humility, anger and acceptance. It is a deeply affecting meditation on dying, but it is also a funny and wise tribute to life. 'This is a powerful, poignant and lucid last testament, at once an eloquent plea for autonomy in death, and an evocation of the joys, sorrows and sheer unpredictability and precariousness of life. Taylor wonders if she has found the 'right tone' for her story. Her readers will find that she has. It's a fine contribution to our much-needed dialogue with death.' Margaret Drabble 'Cory Taylor's book is both

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