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RADIATION DAIRIES
Cancer, Memory and Fragments of a Life in Words
After a life of reading and writing, what does it feel like to be deprived of both, to be thrown back only on what's in your head? The literary snippets that emerge into Todd's consciousness during a month of radiation are sometimes apt, often ludicrous. They draw her back into childhood in Wales, Bermuda, Ceylon when literature functioned as friend and escape, to her unquiet past in sixties Ghana, then America at the dawn of the rights movements.
Her father, nearing 100, is caught in the same hospital-land': both learn the selfishness of sickness and both respond by telling stories.
Janet Todd is a novelist and internationally renowned scholar, known especially for her biographies of women writers. She is an expert in her field in the long 18th century and has published books on Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Samuel Richardson and Aphra Behn. After working as an academic around the world, Janet now lives in Cambridge and Venice.
Her father, nearing 100, is caught in the same hospital-land': both learn the selfishness of sickness and both respond by telling stories.
Janet Todd is a novelist and internationally renowned scholar, known especially for her biographies of women writers. She is an expert in her field in the long 18th century and has published books on Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Samuel Richardson and Aphra Behn. After working as an academic around the world, Janet now lives in Cambridge and Venice.
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Published 2018-05-01 by Fentum Press |