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Author_Joanne Jacobson
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Chronic illness
chronic illness memoir
creative non-fiction
creative non-fiction memoir
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family
family memoir
illness
illness memoir
Jewish memoir
Jewish Studies
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memoir
memoirs about chronic illness
sick memoir
sickness
Product details
- ISBN 9781647690014
- Weight: 122g
- Dimensions: 127 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 09 Oct 2020
- Publisher: University of Utah Press,U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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When Joanne Jacobson's writing about her mother's respiratory illness was interrupted by her own diagnosis with a rare blood disorder, she found her perspective profoundly altered. Every Last Breath follows these two chronic illnesses as they grow unexpectedly intertwined. Rejecting a fixed, retrospective point of view and the forward-moving trajectory of conventional memoir, Jacobson brings the reader to the emotionally raw present - where potentially fatal illness and 'end of life' both remain, emphatically, life. As chronic illness blurs the distinction between illness and wellness, she discovers how a lifetime of relapse and remission can invite transformation. Written at the fluid, unsettling boundary between prose and poetry, these essays offer a narrative diagnosis of ongoing revision.
Joanne Jacobson is the author of Authority and Alliance in the Letters of Henry Adams (1992) and Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood (2007). Her critical essays and memoirs have appeared in such publications as Bellevue Literary Review, New England Review, Fourth Genre, and The Nation and her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.
