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OverviewSongs from a Lead-Lined Room is a unique and remarkable book rooted in truth and raw experience, and the first memoir to focus on the personal experience of radiation treatment. As with Shea's best-selling fiction, her sharp and insightful wit and her reporter's eye for the most telling and sometimes quirky details inform every page. She shares what she learns about the process of her treatment, her bouts of despair, indignity, and fear, as well as the faux pas, the innocent blunders, and the compassion and caring of her family, friends, and fellow patients Full Product DetailsAuthor: Suzanne Strempek Shea , Shea Suzanne Strempek , Susan Strempek SheaPublisher: Beacon Press Imprint: Beacon Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.255kg ISBN: 9780807072158ISBN 10: 080707215 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 15 April 2003 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsI'm not the same person I was before reading Suzanne Strempek Shea's brave, honest, enthralling, darkly funny story. I couldn't put it down, and I'll never forget its lessons about friendship and good intentions gone awry. I've loved many books, but never before have I come away with the conviction that I've just read the one that's been missing from the world. This is one of those books that changes your life forever. I am deeply grateful that I got a chance to read it, and I will recommend it to everyone I know.--Anita Shreve, author of @lt;i@gt;The Last Time They Met@lt;/i@gt; and @lt;i@gt;Fortune's Rocks: A Novel@lt;/i@gt; .@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Her struggle with the realities of breast cancer-and its treatment-is a story of fear, courage, loneliness, and redemption. It is one of the most moving and important books ever written about the extraordinary pressures the disease places not only on the victim, but on family and friends as well. --Michael Carlton, @lt;i@gt;Yankee Magazine@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Songs from a Lead-Lined Room contains passages of unaffected loveliness, in particular Shea's reflections on her working-class hometown in central Massachusetts, a setting cozily familiar from her novels. --Amanda Heller, @lt;i@gt;The Boston Sunday Globe@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; When bad things happened to a talented, insightful Author InformationSuzanne Strempek Shea, winner of the 2000 New England Book Award for Fiction, is the author of Selling the Lite of Heaven, Hoopi Shoopi Donna, Lily of the Valley, and Around Again. She lives and writes in Bondsville, Massachusetts. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |