{"product_id":"9781761340772","title":"The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience","description":"Author: Goldsworthy, Peter \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781761340772 \u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Australia Pty Ltd \u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2024 \u003cbr\u003ePages: 336 \u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 233mm x 154mm x 30mm \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription: \u003cbr\u003eFrom poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhat lessons might cancer teach him before it finishes him off? Peter Goldsworthy asks, obliquely. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA GP of forty years' practice, as well as one of Australia's most awarded and celebrated writers, Goldsworthy ('Doctor Pete' to his patients) brings his characteristic black humour and storytelling power to the tale of his own cancer journey.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAccidentally diagnosed after a scan of his dicky knee, he was thrown into a world that he knew only too well from the other side- a world that soon shrank to hospital visits, sleepless and hyped-up nights on dexamethasone and life-saving chemotherapy. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNever one to waste a story, Peter intersperses his own experience with odd and astonishing case stories of patients and literary friends who have trodden the same path- both cautionary tales and exemplary tales, sometimes laugh-out-loud, sometimes deeply moving, that intersect with, or refract, his own travels through denial, acceptance\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003etreatment and survival.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDarkly funny, and filled with growing love and wonder, \u003ci\u003eThe Cancer Finishing School\u003c\/i\u003e offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45331612172446,"sku":"UBD-9781761340772","price":36.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781761340772.jpg?v=1744772503","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781761340772","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}