Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life - Softcover

Cappello, Mary

 
9781593501501: Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life

Synopsis

In this memoir, Mary Cappello wonders aloud for us what breast cancer awareness really makes us aware of, and responds as if for the first time to the deceivingly simple command: "tell me what you're feeling." Called Back looks through the lens of cancer to discover new truths about intimacy and essential solitude, eroticism, the fact of the body, and the impossibility of turning away.

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About the Authors

Mary Cappello is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island.

Mary Cappello is the author of two previous books of literary nonfiction, Night Bloom and Awkward: A Detour, a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Her essays and experimental prose appear in such places as The Georgia Review, Salmagundi, Southwest Review, and A

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ISBN 10:  0823294048 ISBN 13:  9780823294046
Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2021
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