Cirrus@Austlit

'Peter Goldsworthy, Adelaide based poet, novelist, storyteller, playwright, librettist and general medical practitioner, offers us this memoir of his lived experience of diagnosis and treatment of his haematological cancer, multiple myeloma. The Cancer Finishing School responds to serious questions of mortality, vulnerability and meaning creatively, always with humour, interspersed with sensitive accounts of what he has learned from his engagement with his own patients, with friends and family and with the greats of music and literature.' (Introduction)