A searingly honest, heartbreaking work of genius, this is a book
about music, poetry, devastating illness, creativity, sex and
drugs, and twenty-something life in New York 'Writing this rawly
self-conscious has no business captivating you, let alone moving
you. That it manages to do it anyway is a testament to Mr. Cody's
talent, honesty, and singularity' Jonathan Franzen 'The memoir of
the year. It's a sensorium, and a painful one, a book in which the
sentences swing into you like small, gleaming axes ... He has a
blazing intellect and can really write' New York Times, Books of
the Year Joshua Cody was about to receive his PhD from Columbia
University when he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. He
underwent six months of chemotherapy. The treatment failed.
Expectations for survival plummeted. After consulting with several
oncologists, he embarked on a risky course of high-dose
chemotherapy, full body radiation, and an autologous bone marrow
transplant. In a fevered, mesmerising voice, slaloming effortlessly
between references to Ezra Pound, The Rolling Stones and Beethoven,
in a memoir that is as fresh and beguiling as it is brave and
revealing he charts the struggle: the fury, the tendency to
self-destruction, the ruthless grasping for life, for sensation.
Literary, hallucinatory and at times uncomfortable reading, [sic]
is ultimately a celebration of art, language music and life.
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