The Wild Mandrake
A Memoir
Seiten
2023
Dundurn Group Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4597-5074-6 (ISBN)
Dundurn Group Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4597-5074-6 (ISBN)
Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. His is a special case. Every five years, like clockwork, it relapses, and yet he always pulls through. Life goes on, after a fashion, but there are consequences to surviving.
A young writer on the cusp of adulthood is faced with cancer that keeps coming back.
Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. Every five years, like clockwork, it relapses, and yet he always pulls through. Chemotherapy, surgeries, radiation; these are the milestones of his adulthood, of being “a special case.”
It seems like every time he gets balanced — new writing, love, a job paying more than minimum wage — he’s back in hospital. And he lives. Again and again, he is cured. It is miraculous. A great gift. But never enough.
Told in short glimpses, this story redefines what it means to survive. Jobin brings together the illuminated moments of loss and joy as he navigates chronic illness and builds from it something new and wildly unexpected.
A young writer on the cusp of adulthood is faced with cancer that keeps coming back.
Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. Every five years, like clockwork, it relapses, and yet he always pulls through. Chemotherapy, surgeries, radiation; these are the milestones of his adulthood, of being “a special case.”
It seems like every time he gets balanced — new writing, love, a job paying more than minimum wage — he’s back in hospital. And he lives. Again and again, he is cured. It is miraculous. A great gift. But never enough.
Told in short glimpses, this story redefines what it means to survive. Jobin brings together the illuminated moments of loss and joy as he navigates chronic illness and builds from it something new and wildly unexpected.
Jason Jobin’s writing has been longlisted for the CBC Nonfiction Prize and published in Cleaver magazine, Pithead Chapel, and The Sun magazine. His stories have won a National Magazine Award and been featured in the 2018 and 2019 Journey Prize anthologies. He lives in Victoria, B.C.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.08.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 298 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4597-5074-8 / 1459750748 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4597-5074-6 / 9781459750746 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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