Mary Cappello

Gebundenes Buch

Swallow

Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them

Beschreibung

Discusses what it means to ingest things humans weren't meant to eat, and how the line between human bodies and foreign bodies can sometimes blur.

Autor

Mary Cappello's three previous works of literary nonfiction are Awkward, a Los Angeles Times bestseller; Called Back, a critical memoir on cancer that won a ForeWord Book of the Year Award and an Independent Publisher Book Award; and the memoir Night Bloom. A recipient of the Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination from Teachers and Writers Collaborative and the Lange-Taylor Prize from Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, she is a former Fulbright lecturer at the Gorky Literary Institute (Moscow) and currently a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Rhode Island. She lives in Providence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781595583956
• ISBN-10: 1595583955
• Artikelnr.: 29954387