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050 4 $aRC416$b.M36 2009
082 4 $a362.1968560092
100 1 $aManguso, Sarah,$d1974-
245 14 $aThe two kinds of decay :$b[a memoir] /$cSarah Manguso.
250 $a1st Picador ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPicador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2009.
300 $a184 p. ;$c21 cm.
520 $a"At age twenty-one, just starting to comprehend the usual puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with yet another: a wildly unpredictable disease that appeared without warning. It tore through her twenties, vanishing and then returning, often paralyzing her for weeks at a time. The experience left Manguso first to expect nothing from her life, and then, furiously, to expect everything. In wry and unsentimental prose, Manguso recounts her nine-year struggle with this enigmatic affliction and its treatments, from emergency blood cleansings and collapsed veins to addiction and depression, to perhaps the unkindest cut of all for a writer - the trite metaphors that accompany prolonged illness."--Provided by publisher.
600 10 $aManguso, Sarah,$d1974-$xHealth.
650 0 $aGuillain-Barré syndrome$xPatients$zUnited States$vBiography.
852 00 $bglx$hRC416$i.M36 2009g