Death and the elephant : how cancer saved my life
Shaw, Raz2018
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On his 28th birthday, Raz Shaw was a directionless gambling addict doing a telesales job that was eating up every trace of what soul he had left. The next day he would be diagnosed with stage 4 sclerosing mediastinal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the large cell type. As he tells it, cancer saved his life. He was given the all-clear in March 1996, and stopped gambling for good that April. After a year away recuperating, he turned his back on the highly paid job that had devoured him and re-assimilated himself into the world of theatre that had once made him feel so alive. It took him a long time to realise quite how much these recoveries were bound up with one another - now he is ready to tell his story. 'Death and the Elephant' is a memoir of living through and beyond illness and addiction.
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Imprint:
London : Unbound, 2018.
Collation:
xxxviii, 257 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781783524778 (hbk)
Dewey class:
362.1969940092362.196B/SHA
LC class:
RC262
Language:
English
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BRN:
2182339