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In 1992, Marilyn French was told she had one year to live. A smoker of 48 years she was diagnosed as having cancer of the oesophagus, a cancer which is almost always fatal. Five years on, having battled with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, a heart attack and her back breaking, she is very much alive. And - astonishingly - her body shows no sign of cancer. A SEASON IN HELL is a remarkable, unsentimental, life-affirming journey from an indomitable woman who brought the fighting power she has always brought to the war between the sexes, to the war that for a while raged from within her.
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Marilyn French, author of My Summer with George, The Women's Room and Her Mother's Daughter, learns at the beginning of this memoir that she has cancer of the oesophagus. (A smoker for 46 years, she had ignored friends and doctors who implored her to stop). She is told that one survives metastasized esophageal cancer. A Season in Hell is French's personal story of her journey through the nightmares of aggressive cancer treatment, seizures, a two-week coma, kindhearted nurses, and uncompassionate doctors. One told her not to get her hopes up when her tumour disappeared, and a neurologist said (prophetically?), "Doctors hate writers; they always say horrible things about us." It is also French's story of triumph--because she succeeds in conquering the cancer, though she emerges from the struggle far from well, with "just about every system in my body [damaged] by chemotherapy or radiation." Readers share the worst and the best with French, and by the end of the book get to know this woman, feel a part of her humanity, respect her courage, and cherish her circle of close friends (including Gloria Steinem) and relatives who gave her so much when she needed it most. --Joan Price
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A vigorous book (Mary Margaret McCabe, TLS)
The strangest thing about A SEASON IN HELL is that, even though it is a meticulous catalogue of her descent into this other, diminished, way of life ... it ends up being immensely cheering (Maureen Freely, GUARDIAN)
The struggle to assert control over chaos, and the painful realisation that your former life can never be resumed, is a powerful theme of the book (Julie Wheelwright, INDEPENDENT)
An awesome testament to the bravery of a woman who manages to defy a supposedly unbeatable disease. (BIG ISSUE)
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- PublisherBallantine Books
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0345436199
- ISBN 13 9780345436191
- BindingPaperback
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