{"product_id":"diary-of-a-detour-paperback","title":"Diary of a Detour - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLesley Stern\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiary of a Detour\u003c\/i\u003e is film scholar and author Lesley Stern's memoir of living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She chronicles the fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable form of cancer by describing the dramas and delving into the science. Stern also nudges cancer off center stage by turning to alternative obsessions and pleasures. In seductive writing she describes her life in the garden and kitchen, the hospital and the library, and her travels--down the street to her meditation center, across the border to Mexico, and across the world to Australia. Her immediate world is inhabited with books, movies, politics, and medical reports that provoke essayistic reflections. As her environment is shared with friends, chickens, a cat called Elvis, mountain goats, whales, lions, and microbes the book opens onto a larger than human world. Intimate and meditative, engrossing and singular, \u003ci\u003eDiary of a Detour\u003c\/i\u003e offers new ideas about what it might mean to live and think with cancer, and with chronic illness more broadly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesley Stern is Professor Emerita of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego; author of \u003ci\u003eDead and Alive: The Body as Cinematic Thing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Smoking Book\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Scorsese Connection\u003c\/i\u003e; and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eFalling for You: Essays on Cinema and Performance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 18, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47415706058930,"sku":"9781478009672","price":43.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/4e7936552f09a1ae72707851eee9528c.webp?v=1778384982","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/diary-of-a-detour-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}