The body in the library
Caveney, Graham2024
Book
Cancer, tumour, cancer. The words fizzle and dissolve into nothing like aspirin in water. I exist in the third person. The room is blue. When Graham Caveney was a child the word 'cancer' was unspeakable, only uttered in jokes told by people too frightened to say the word in any other context. Now the boy with perpetual nervousness is a fifty-something man, and the oncologist in front of him is saying words evacuated of all meaning: Inoperable. Incurable. In this startling and deeply moving memoir from one of the great chroniclers of British working-class life, Graham Caveney charts a year of disease from diagnosis to past 'original sell-by-date'. Shot through with Northerness, tenderness, and Caveney's trademark humour, 'The Body in the Library' reflects on an unfinished lifetime filled with books and with love.
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prestwich Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 828.9209 | Available |
Main title:
The body in the library / Graham Caveney.
Author:
Caveney, Graham, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Peninsula Press, 2024.
Collation:
256 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781913512507 (pbk)
Dewey class:
828.9209
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3847924