<![CDATA[The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir]]>

false <![CDATA[The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir]]> 2100881 2 <div><div>The events that began in 1995 might keep happening to me as long as things can happen to me. Think of deep space, through which heavenly bodies fly forever. They fly until they change into new forms, simpler forms, with ever fewer qualities and increasingly beautiful names. There are names for things in spacetime that are nothing, for things that are less than nothing. White dwarfs, red giants, black holes, singularities. But even then, in their less-than-nothing state, they keep happening. <div> At twenty-one, just starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, vanishing and then returning, paralyzing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life and then, furiously, to expect everything. In this captivating story, Manguso recalls her nine-year struggle: arduous blood cleansings, collapsed veins, multiple chest catheters, the deaths of friends and strangers, addiction, depression, and, worst of all for a writer, the trite metaphors that accompany prolonged illness. A book of tremendous grace and self-awareness, The Two Kinds of Decay transcends the very notion of what an illness story can and should be.</div></div></div> 2106245 27 5 2008 The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir total:165|5:52|4:60|3:39|2:11|1:3| 165 642 298 48 4 1 false false Thu Jul 10 08:28:28 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 08:57:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 1 false false Wed Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 07 14:41:34 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 14:43:43 -0800 2009 STOP SMILING review of The Two Kinds of Decay:

A writer does not need to have experienced great suffering at an early age in order to write a good memoir while still young, but it doesn’t hurt. In 1995, then-21-year-old Harvard undergrad Sarah Manguso contracted a rare, devasta...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Jan 05 06:57:46 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 07:03:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 20:18:16 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 20:32:01 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 08:47:29 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 19:10:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 15 05:39:23 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 05:39:45 -0700 2009
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At first I was off-put by the book's tone. Aside from a few well-placed chapters, TKOD is less a ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 05 19:32:20 -0700 2008 Fri May 29 14:11:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 06:01:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 06:08:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 16 10:48:05 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 13:12:59 -0700 2009
The star system on goodreads is a little ridiculous, so I would...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 11:59:47 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 13:20:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 09:21:22 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 17:40:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 17:09:14 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 06:47:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 18:36:17 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 18:38:47 -0700 2009
I hope she publishes more.

One book a year, if she can manage.
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