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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 The Vitals
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'Deep inside Tracy's body live the organs of the peritoneal cavity.

'Ute, a wandering womb.
Rage, an existential spleen.
Gaster, a gleeful gorger.
Liv, a workaholic liver.

'But there is also Baby, an ever-growing tumour, and Baby's child Bunny, whose cells are multiplying alarmingly.

'Together, the organs must fight for homeostasis ... and Tracy's survival.

'The Vitals is Tracy Sorensen's cancer memoir transformed by imagination into something far richer and stranger. Narrated by her internal organs, it will make you infinitely more aware of the peculiar world inside your body, and illuminate all the hidden parts that make you human.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Chosen as one of the  Conversation's best Australian books of the 21st century

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Picador , 2023 .
      image of person or book cover 930330944494065872.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher website.
      Extent: 304p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 25 July 2023
      ISBN: 9781761261626

Other Formats

  • Sound recording.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

The 17 Best Books of 2023 Geordie Williamson , Justine Hyde , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 22 January 2024;

— Review of The Sitter Angela O'Keeffe , 2023 single work novel ; Killing for Country : A Family Story David Marr , 2023 multi chapter work criticism ; The Conversion Amanda Lohrey , 2023 single work novel ; The Vitals Tracy Sorensen , 2023 single work prose ; Right Story, Wrong Story : Adventures in Indigenous Thinking Tyson Yunkaporta , 2023 multi chapter work criticism ; Praiseworthy Alexis Wright , 2023 single work novel ; Edenglassie Melissa Lucashenko , 2023 single work novel ; Women and Children Tony Birch , 2023 single work novel ; The Art of Breaking Ice Rachael Mead , 2023 single work novel ; I'd Rather Not Robert Skinner , 2023 single work autobiography ; On Peter Carey : Writers on Writers Sarah Krasnostein , 2023 single work biography ; New Australian Fiction 2023 2023 anthology short story ; Critic Swallows Book : Ten Years of the Sydney Review of Books 2023 anthology review essay
Diseased Organs at War Peter Craven , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 August 2023; (p. 15)

— Review of The Vitals Tracy Sorensen , 2023 single work prose
Tracy Sorensen's Unusual Cancer Memoir The Vitals Lets Her Body's Organs Tell the Story Sarah Price , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , August 2023;

— Review of The Vitals Tracy Sorensen , 2023 single work prose

'Cancer radically changed author Tracy Sorensen.'

‘It’s Some Sort of Cosmic Joke’ : Tracy Sorensen Wrote a Book about Surviving Cancer. Now It Has Returned Janine Israel , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 25 July 2023;
Tracy Sorensen's Unusual Cancer Memoir The Vitals Lets Her Body's Organs Tell the Story Sarah Price , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , August 2023;

— Review of The Vitals Tracy Sorensen , 2023 single work prose

'Cancer radically changed author Tracy Sorensen.'

Diseased Organs at War Peter Craven , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 August 2023; (p. 15)

— Review of The Vitals Tracy Sorensen , 2023 single work prose
The 17 Best Books of 2023 Geordie Williamson , Justine Hyde , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 22 January 2024;

— Review of The Sitter Angela O'Keeffe , 2023 single work novel ; Killing for Country : A Family Story David Marr , 2023 multi chapter work criticism ; The Conversion Amanda Lohrey , 2023 single work novel ; The Vitals Tracy Sorensen , 2023 single work prose ; Right Story, Wrong Story : Adventures in Indigenous Thinking Tyson Yunkaporta , 2023 multi chapter work criticism ; Praiseworthy Alexis Wright , 2023 single work novel ; Edenglassie Melissa Lucashenko , 2023 single work novel ; Women and Children Tony Birch , 2023 single work novel ; The Art of Breaking Ice Rachael Mead , 2023 single work novel ; I'd Rather Not Robert Skinner , 2023 single work autobiography ; On Peter Carey : Writers on Writers Sarah Krasnostein , 2023 single work biography ; New Australian Fiction 2023 2023 anthology short story ; Critic Swallows Book : Ten Years of the Sydney Review of Books 2023 anthology review essay
‘It’s Some Sort of Cosmic Joke’ : Tracy Sorensen Wrote a Book about Surviving Cancer. Now It Has Returned Janine Israel , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 25 July 2023;
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