An edition of The brand new catastrophe (2017)

The brand new catastrophe

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An edition of The brand new catastrophe (2017)

The brand new catastrophe

a memoir

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"Winner of the Center for Fiction's Doheny Prize, Mike Scalise hits his stride in this page-turner of a memoir featuring a sudden and strange sequence of medical disasters. From its gripping ruptured-brain-tumor emergency room opening, through a series of medical procedures and oddball doctors, Scalise creates a sharply observed, uproariously funny, and deeply moving account of acromegaly, the hormone disorder best known for causing gigantism. Scalise weaves in meticulous research, social history, and vignettes about Andre the Giant and a variety of Hollywood acromegalic villains. He creates a narrative that is informative without feeling pedantic, demonstrating how he has marshaled the narrative of his life so that he can control it rather than being controlled by it. Although his medical story is the primary subject, the emotional engine driving the book is that of his relationship with his mother, a longtime sufferer in her own right, with a chronic cardiac condition likely exacerbated by her penchant for chain smoking and late-night white wine binges. Fraught, frustrating, and often very funny, Scalise's mother--often positioned as his competitor for the spotlight or the status of 'best sick person'--winds up being the book's unlikely hero. Mike Scalise's work has appeared in Agni, Indiewire, the Paris Review, Wall Street Journal, and other places. He has received fellowships and scholarships from Bread Loaf, Yaddo, the Ucross Foundation, and was the Philip Roth Writer in Residence at Bucknell University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York"--

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Sarabande Books
Language
English
Pages
303

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Cover of: Brand New Catastrophe
Brand New Catastrophe
2017, Sarabande Books, Incorporated
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Cover of: The brand new catastrophe
The brand new catastrophe: a memoir
2017, Sarabande Books
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Table of Contents

Prologue : A fraction of a fraction of a fraction
The drowning lifeguard
More recent unfinished business
Q&A
The big whatever
In the event of something unholy
A few simple repairs
Box-o'-man
Posse
Another one
Bait
What else can she give me but her milk?
Gamma knife
A certain kind of busy
The most literal possible understanding of the world
Game
What okay feels like now
Best man
Wedding
Jewelry
Yacht people
A history in caricature
Perhaps nothing, perhaps everything
Crazy lady
Practice
A universe of no accidents.

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Dewey Decimal Class
818/.603
Library of Congress
PS3619.C2547 Z46 2017, PS3619.C2547Z46 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
303 pages
Number of pages
303

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27240207M
Internet Archive
brandnewcatastro0000scal
ISBN 10
1941411339
ISBN 13
9781941411339
LCCN
2016014119
OCLC/WorldCat
945948937
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B01N4M1TK1

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