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'Illness memoir is based on a tension between the general and the particular. The writer presents (to use a medical term) as both representing all sufferers of a particular malady – in this case, myeloma – and a unique individual experiencing a specific, unrepeatable event. Peter Goldsworthy, who is both a GP and a prize-winning writer, is better equipped than most to engage with this tension.' (Introduction)
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In His Entertaining Cancer Memoir, Peter Goldsworthy Explores the ‘necessary Narcissism’ of Illness
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