The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (526 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312428448 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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"More than "frank" or "honest"." according to migrant777. Reviewers have cited examples by which they were affected. Mine: the honesty. Yes, "spare", "brutal", "direct" as others described, but what I read was simple narrative, uncloaked in additional verbiage. I don't know that writing seemingly without caution is common; in retrospect, I'm surprised she did it and got away with it. I heard anger, cynicism a. A painfully, poignantly, poetic, perfect prescription for pity-party participants Julee Rudolf Sarah Manguso, afflicted at age twenty-one (in 1995) with a Guillain-Barre-like syndrome called CIDP, wrote The Two Kinds of Decay after seven years of remission from her illness. (p 2) "For seven years I tried not to remember much because there was too much to remember, and I didn't want to fall any further behind with the events in my life." Of the d. The book started out very strong I thought this book would be powerful all the way to the end--but it lost its momentum after about the 3/The book started out very strong Barb F. I thought this book would be powerful all the way to the end--but it lost its momentum after about the 3/4 mark. The parts that I thought were very good were but something changed in the writers style of writing that I just didn't get it at the end. I may try the authors poetry, and see what I get from that. I would recommend getting the book from the . mark. The parts that I thought were very good were but something changed in the writers style of writing that I just didn't get it at the end. I may try the authors poetry, and see what I get from that. I would recommend getting the book from the
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A book of tremendous grace, The Two Kinds of Decay transcends the very notion of what an illness story can and should be.. At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable autoimmune disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralyzing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life and then, furiously, to expect everything. In this captivating story, Manguso recalls her struggle: arduous blood cleansings, collapsed veins, multiple chest catheters, depression, the deaths of friends and strangers, addiction, and, worst of all for a writer, the trite metaphors that accompany prolonged illness