Every last breath : a memoir of two illnesses

Jacobson, Joanne 1952- (author.).

Summary: "Joanne Jacobson's Every Last Breath "follows" two chronic illnesses that grew unexpectedly intertwined when her writing about her mother's respiratory illness was interrupted by her own diagnosis with a rare blood disorder. Rejecting the fixed, retrospective point of view and the forward-moving narrative trajectory of conventional memoir, the essays of Every Last Breath immerse the reader in the emotionally raw present of illness-confronting potentially fatal illness and "end-of-life" while both are still, emphatically, life"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781674690038
ISBN: 9781647690038
ISBN: 164769003X
ISBN: 1674690037
ISBN: 9781674690032
ISBN: 1647690021
ISBN: 9781647690021
Physical Description: 1 online resource (107 pages)
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Publisher: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2020]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Intro -- Contents -- Every Last Breath -- Economy -- Goodbye and Goodbye -- In the Year of Masking Tape -- Mirror Writing -- Written in Blood -- Resignation -- If My Disease Were an Animal -- Dead Reckoning -- My Mother, Gardening -- Thoreau's Body -- Book of Names -- Acknowledgments
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 02, 2020).