Porochista Khakpour

Sick

A Memoir

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A devastating memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction and the myth of full recovery - already an online phenomenon in the USA in summer 2018

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9781786896049
• ISBN-10: 1786896044
• Artikelnr.: 53467870

Autorenporträt

Porochista Khakpour is the author of the novels Sons and Other Flammable Objects, which was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and The Last Illusion. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Elle, Slate and Salon, among others. She has been awarded a number of fellowships and is currently a guest member of the faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Contributing Editor at the Evergreen Review. Born in Tehran and raised in Los Angeles, she now lives in New York City's Harlem. Her memoir, Sick, chronicles her discovery of late-stage Lyme disease. @PKhakpour porochistakhakpour.com