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Sarah Manguso is the author of several books, including the memoir, The Two Kinds of Decay; books of poetry, Siste Viator and The Captain Lands in Paradise; a short-story collection, Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, and the novel Very Cold People.
"""Manguso has produced a remarkable, clear-eyed account that turns horror into something humane and beautiful."" --The New York Times Book Review ""Moving . . . a fiercely truthful memoir of illness."" --The Boston Globe ""Here is not a day-by-day description of this grueling time, but an impressionistic text filled with bright, poetic flashes. . . . Many sick people learn to live in the moment, but the power of Manguso's writing makes that truism revelatory."" --The Washington Post Book World ""Manguso's slender volume is written in a sparese, no-nonsense style that can be chilling but makes you cheer for the author."" --New York Post ""Manguso writes this account from the far end of the illness, looking back on it from a position of physical strength, biting ferocity, and unsentimental wit."" --Bookforum ""A series of brief, elliptical vignettes composed of sentences as spare as they are unsparing . . . Manguso pushes beyond the familiar confrontation between doctor and patient to explore the linguistic confusion at the heart of the power struggle."" --Slate ""[A] stunning story . . . Manguso's deadpan tone works equally well in service of the painful and funny moments, or when the two meet."" --Time Out Chicago"
