| 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
editOverview
editReception
editAccording 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
editThe 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
editUS 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