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[sic] by Joshua Cody
Joshua Cody was about to receive his PhD from Columbia University when he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. He underwent six months of chemotherapy. The treatment failed. Expectations for survival plummeted. After consulting with several oncologists, he embarked on a risky course of high-dose chemotherapy, full body radiation, and an autologous bone marrow transplant. In a fevered, mesmerising voice, slaloming effortlessly between references to Ezra Pound, The Rolling Stones and Beethoven, he charts the struggle: the fury, the tendancy to self-destruction, the ruthless grasping for life, for sensation - he beautiful Ariel who gives him cocaine and a blowjob in a Manhattan restaurant following his first treatment; the detailed Hungarian morphine fantasy complete with bride called Valentina while, in reality, hospital staff are pinning him to his bed. As fresh and beguiling as it is brave and revealing, Joshua Cody has created a book that gives readers a long glimpse into a gorgeous, dark thrashing in the forecourt of death. Literary, hallucinatory and at times uncomfortable reading, [sic] is ultimately a celebration of art, language music and life.
‘Writing this rawly self-conscious has no business captivating you, let alone moving youThat it manages to do it anyway is a testament to Mr. Cody's talent, honesty, and singularity' * Jonathan Franzen *
‘To open this book is to engage with a spirit at once endlessly curious, genuinely funny, fiercely intelligent, and wonderfully perverse. Reading it I kept having the uncanny sense that I was holding something alive in my hands, something with a pulse. This book is a true gift, a wild ride, and a tour-de-force performance. Welcome to the new face of memoir' * Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City *
‘There are paragraphs of Mr. Cody's testimony so brimming with the connectedness of things - art and life, wellness and death, sex and sickness, beauty and disease, literature and love, music and mortality: all the undulant contingencies - it takes our breath away. Mighty writing and a memorable read' * Thomas Lynch, author of The Undertaking *
'From its brilliant title onwards, persuasively equates that which is with that which is diseased. Joshua Cody is sympathetic (in all senses of the word), immensely knowledgeable, and he makes illuminating connections when discussing major modernist figures such as Nietzsche, Kakfa, Klee, Pound and Eliot' * David Shields, author of Reality Hunger *
‘To open this book is to engage with a spirit at once endlessly curious, genuinely funny, fiercely intelligent, and wonderfully perverse. Reading it I kept having the uncanny sense that I was holding something alive in my hands, something with a pulse. This book is a true gift, a wild ride, and a tour-de-force performance. Welcome to the new face of memoir' * Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City *
‘There are paragraphs of Mr. Cody's testimony so brimming with the connectedness of things - art and life, wellness and death, sex and sickness, beauty and disease, literature and love, music and mortality: all the undulant contingencies - it takes our breath away. Mighty writing and a memorable read' * Thomas Lynch, author of The Undertaking *
'From its brilliant title onwards, persuasively equates that which is with that which is diseased. Joshua Cody is sympathetic (in all senses of the word), immensely knowledgeable, and he makes illuminating connections when discussing major modernist figures such as Nietzsche, Kakfa, Klee, Pound and Eliot' * David Shields, author of Reality Hunger *
Joshua Cody received his bachelor's degree in music composition from Northwestern University, and his master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University. Joshua is a composer living in New York City. This is his first book.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781408815205 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408815206 |
| Title | [sic] |
| Author | Joshua Cody |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2011-11-21 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |