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Product details
- ISBN 9781913512507
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 30 May 2024
- Publisher: Peninsula Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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When Graham Caveney was a child the word 'cancer' was unspeakable, only uttered in jokes told by people too frightened to say the word in any other context. Now the boy with perpetual nervousness is a fifty-something man, and the oncologist in front of him is saying words evacuated of all meaning: Inoperable. Incurable.
In this startling and deeply moving memoir from one of the great chroniclers of British working-class life, Graham Caveney charts a year of disease from diagnosis to past 'original sell-by-date'. Shot through with Northerness, tenderness, and Caveney's trademark humour, The Body in the Library reflects on an unfinished lifetime filled with books and with love.
What's it like to realise that the books on your shelf will remain unread? That the book you are writing will be your last - that you have become your own deadline?
Graham Caveney has written on music and fiction for the NME, The Face and the Independent. He is the author of four previous books, including The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness, which was longlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize and shortlisted for the Portico Prize, and On Agoraphobia.
