The Undying (book)
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| Author | Anne Boyer |
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| Audio read by | Amy Finegan |
| Cover artist | Strick&Williams |
| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | 17 September 2019 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 308/320 (first edition) |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction |
| ISBN | 978-0-374-27934-9 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 1089841413 |
| 616.99/4490092 B | |
| LC Class | RC280.B8 B645 2019 |
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care is a 2019 memoir by the American author, poet, and essayist Anne Boyer. The book chronicles Boyer's experience as a breast cancer patient. Boyer takes an untraditional approach to the standard illness narrative, by weaving together her personal journey as a patient in treatment with reflections on art and literature, and critiques of capitalism and the medical industry.
The book won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the PEN America's Jean Stein Book Award. The Pulitzer committee described the book as "an elegant and unforgettable narrative about the brutality of illness and the capitalism of cancer care in America."