The Resource A season in hell : a memoir, Marilyn French
A season in hell : a memoir, Marilyn French
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- Summary
- Marilyn French takes us into the private hell that became her life when, in 1992, after a series of false diagnoses, it was determined that she had esophageal cancer - from the grueling regimen of radiation and chemotherapy to the subsequent coma from which it was thought she had no chance of recovering, to the even more serious post-coma illnesses, to her miraculous return to life. With the insight, intelligence, and emotional honesty with which she has examined so many other women's lives in her fiction, Marilyn French now considers her own, as she battles with doctors and the medical establishment; as her family and friends surround her, giving her mysterious strength; and as she defies all diagnoses and prognostications and emerges whole and more than ever open to life. While this book is a consideration of what it feels like to be dying, and as such it is a musing on death, it is also centered on life: death has cast a mark on life which gives us a new vision of meaning and purpose. As French examines death's role in her life, she shares a sense of what pain and suffering can mean to a person who utterly denies transcendent thought, of how an experience of closeness to death affects the life we are living now
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (255 pages)
- Label
- A season in hell : a memoir
- Title
- A season in hell
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Marilyn French
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Marilyn French takes us into the private hell that became her life when, in 1992, after a series of false diagnoses, it was determined that she had esophageal cancer - from the grueling regimen of radiation and chemotherapy to the subsequent coma from which it was thought she had no chance of recovering, to the even more serious post-coma illnesses, to her miraculous return to life. With the insight, intelligence, and emotional honesty with which she has examined so many other women's lives in her fiction, Marilyn French now considers her own, as she battles with doctors and the medical establishment; as her family and friends surround her, giving her mysterious strength; and as she defies all diagnoses and prognostications and emerges whole and more than ever open to life. While this book is a consideration of what it feels like to be dying, and as such it is a musing on death, it is also centered on life: death has cast a mark on life which gives us a new vision of meaning and purpose. As French examines death's role in her life, she shares a sense of what pain and suffering can mean to a person who utterly denies transcendent thought, of how an experience of closeness to death affects the life we are living now
- Additional physical form
- Also issued online.
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1929-2009
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- French, Marilyn
- Dewey number
-
- 813/.54
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3556.R42
- LC item number
- Z467 1998
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- French, Marilyn
- Novelists, American
- Esophagus
- Near-death experiences
- Kanker
- Therapieën
- French, Marilyn (1929-....).
- Expériences de mort imminente
- French, Marilyn
- Autobiographie
- Label
- A season in hell : a memoir, Marilyn French
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (255 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036892782
- Label
- A season in hell : a memoir, Marilyn French
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (255 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036892782
Subject
- Autobiographie
- Esophagus -- Cancer | Patients -- United States -- Biography
- Expériences de mort imminente
- French, Marilyn
- French, Marilyn (1929-....). -- Biographie
- French, Marilyn, 1929-2009
- Kanker
- Near-death experiences -- United States
- Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Therapieën
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