Cancer Vixen - 9780375714740
Un libro in lingua di Marchetto Marisa Acocella edito da Pantheon Books, 2009
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“What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, madly-in-love, about-to-get married, big-city-girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds . . . a lump in her breast?”
That’s the question that sets this funny, powerful and poignant graphic memoir in motion. In vivid colour and with a taboo-breaking sense of humour, Marisa Marchetto tells the story of her 11-month, ultimately triumphant bout with breast cancer – from diagnosis to cure, and every challenging step in between.
But Cancer Vixen is about more than surviving an illness. It is a portrait of one woman’s supercharged life in Manhattan, and a wonderful love story. Marisa, self-described “terminal bachelorette” meets her Prince Charming in Silvano, owner of the chic downtown trattoria Da Silvano. A month before their wedding, she receives her diagnosis. She wonders: How will he react to this news? How will my world change? Will I even survive? And . . . what about my hair?
From raucous New Yorker staff lunches and the star-studded crowd at Silvano’s restaurant, to the rainbow pumps Marisa wears to chemotherapy, Cancer Vixen is a total original. Her wit and courage are an inspiration – she’s a cancer vixen, not its victim: “Cancer,” she says, “I’m going to kick your butt! And I’m going to do it in killer four-inch heels!”
From the Hardcover edition.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Cancer Vixen
- Sottotitolo: A True Story
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Marchetto Marisa Acocella
- Editore: Pantheon Books
- Collana: Pantheon Books (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 29 Settembre '09
- Genere: COMICS and GRAPHIC NOVELS
- Argomenti : Breast Cancer Patients New York (State) New York Biography Comic books, strips, etc
- Pagine: 208
- Dimensioni mm: 209 x 196 x 19
- ISBN-10: 037571474X
- EAN-13: 9780375714740