Sick Lit: Books About Maladies, Illness And Recovery

The Guardian:

Remember Sick Lit? Leader of the pack was Iris (1998), John Bayley's memoir of his wife Iris Murdoch's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Then there was C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too (1998), columnist John Diamond's account of his throat cancer. Bryan Aldiss also had a stab with his When the Feast was Finished (1999) the story of his wife Margaret's decline and death from pancreatic cancer.

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Comments

[BlueZoo]

10:17 PM on 09/05/2010

I can't read this stuff and I won't for the same reasons I won't watch the cable channels which show operations and chronicle people with diseases while they are poked, prodded and x-rayed to death. Life is just too harrowing in itself to expose myself to all of this sadness. I've lost several close family members in the last two years and that is about all the sadness I can take! I'm old and I've seen and heard too many old people unnervingl­y influenced by what they saw on television or what they read. Life is for living! Reading about dying and disease just isn't my idea of living!

[ZenSufi]

02:00 PM on 09/04/2010

This is atrocious. That's not a women's pelvis. It's much too narrow, even narrower than the male's. Huffpost should hire a 1st-year med student as editor. This is completely sickening.

[Rubius Hagrid]

03:53 PM on 09/04/2010

I was just about to say the same thing. Good eye Zen.