Year of plagues : a memoir of 2020 / Fred D'Aguiar.
Year of plagues : a memoir of 2020 / Fred D'Aguiar.
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New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
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G 2021/2169
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English
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323 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Out of this time -- I do not want to alarm you -- Is this what dying looks like? -- Fred, do not be afraid -- You are my mortal enemy -- To fall, falling, and never land -- Help me, Anansi -- What Brer Rabbit did -- Surely I'm to be saved -- Hello, Miss Corona. Meet Mister Cancer -- The maddening pa...
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Publisher
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2021]
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Drawing from two cultural perspectives, an acclaimed British-Guyanese writer and award-winning poet combines personal reminiscence and philosophy to reflect on a year of personal and global crisis, as he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"For acclaimed British-Guyanese writer Fred D'Aguiar, 2020 was a year of personal and global crisis. The world around him was shattered by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the United States, California burned, and D'Aguiar was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Year of Plagues is an intimate, multifaceted...
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Year of plagues : a memoir of 2020 / Fred D'Aguiar.
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©2021
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G 2021/2169
Record Identifier
74VKaLLQK7BA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaLLQK7BA
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ISBN
0063091534
9780063091535
DDC
811.54
MMS ID
991024428944002626
