Kenneth Sherman, "Wait Time: A Memoir of Cancer "
English | ISBN: 1771121882 | 2016 | 146 pages | EPUB | 557 KB
When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations that blossomed into this powerful memoir. With incisive and evocative language, Sherman presents a clear-eyed view of what the cancer patient feels and thinks.
Sherman's narrative voice is personal but not confessional, practical but not cold, thoughtful and searching but not self-pitying or self-absorbed. The author's wait time for surgery on a malignant tumor was exceptionally long and riddled with bureaucratic bumbling, and he asks our health-care providers and administrators if the Canadian healthcare system cannot be made efficient and more humane. While he is honest about what is good and bad in the system, he is not stridently political or given to directing blame. His narrative is interwoven with engaging ruminations on the meaning of illness in society, and is peppered with references to other writers' thoughts on the subject. A widely published poet, Sherman helps the reader understand the deep connection between disease and creativity―the ways in which we write out of our suffering.
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