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The Wig Diaries
The Wig Diaries
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The Wig Diaries
The Wig Diaries
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The Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd's debut disrespectful cancer book, delivered with bold gallows humor to intimately address the gravity of cancer. The book invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with humor and creative sensibility, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty and infused with a contagious lust for life exemplified…
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  • Autorius: Mary Ladd
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  • Metai: 2019
  • Puslapiai: 82
  • ISBN-10: 1734133317
  • ISBN-13: 9781734133318
  • Formatas: ACSM ?
  • Kalba: Anglų

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The Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd's debut disrespectful cancer book, delivered with bold gallows humor to intimately address the gravity of cancer. The book invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with humor and creative sensibility, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty and infused with a contagious lust for life exemplified by hilarious anecdotes.

- A uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer

- Covers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills

- Illustrated by San Francisco Chronicle Bad Reporter cartoonist Don Asmussen, who has cancer for the second time

"I love this book."--Mary Roach, author of the books Grunt, Stiff, Spook, and Bonk

"This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more."--Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), author of A Series of Unfortunate Events

"Clear-eyed, fun, and reassuring, it's the perfect guide!"--Vanessa Hua, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities

Fans of F*ck Cancer, Cancer is Funny and Healing Through Humor will love this book

This book is perfect for:

- Anyone diagnosed with cancer or going through cancer treatment

- Well-meaning friends and family of anyone diagnosed with cancer

- Medical professionals who deal with cancer patients

Mary Ladd's writing has appeared in Playboy, Time Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle and in five anthologies. She is a Writers Grotto member who collaborated with Anthony Bourdain on his Bay Area episodes of No Reservations. Illustrator Don Asmussen is the creator of Bad Reporter, a twice-weekly political comic strip in the San Francisco Chronicle that is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate and the author of Dog vs. Cat: A Nation Divided and The San Francisco Comic Strip Book of Big-Ass Mocha.
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The Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd's debut disrespectful cancer book, delivered with bold gallows humor to intimately address the gravity of cancer. The book invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with humor and creative sensibility, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty and infused with a contagious lust for life exemplified by hilarious anecdotes.

- A uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer

- Covers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills

- Illustrated by San Francisco Chronicle Bad Reporter cartoonist Don Asmussen, who has cancer for the second time

"I love this book."--Mary Roach, author of the books Grunt, Stiff, Spook, and Bonk

"This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more."--Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), author of A Series of Unfortunate Events

"Clear-eyed, fun, and reassuring, it's the perfect guide!"--Vanessa Hua, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities

Fans of F*ck Cancer, Cancer is Funny and Healing Through Humor will love this book

This book is perfect for:

- Anyone diagnosed with cancer or going through cancer treatment

- Well-meaning friends and family of anyone diagnosed with cancer

- Medical professionals who deal with cancer patients

Mary Ladd's writing has appeared in Playboy, Time Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle and in five anthologies. She is a Writers Grotto member who collaborated with Anthony Bourdain on his Bay Area episodes of No Reservations. Illustrator Don Asmussen is the creator of Bad Reporter, a twice-weekly political comic strip in the San Francisco Chronicle that is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate and the author of Dog vs. Cat: A Nation Divided and The San Francisco Comic Strip Book of Big-Ass Mocha.

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