Awarded Pulitzer Prize 2020 and Windham-Campbell Prize 2020

"Deep and unforgettable" - Sally Rooney

"A classic... I've always thought Boyer is a genius" - Patricia Lockwood

"An angry, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique" - Ben Lerner

"Some of the most penetrating and beautiful writing on illness and pain I've read" - Hari Kunzru

In The Undying, Anne Boyer combines memoir and critique to explore the modern experience of illness and health, as well as the cancer industry. A week after her 41st birthday, she was diagnosed with highly aggressive breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck, the diagnosis was a crisis and an introduction to new ideas about mortality and the gendered issues surrounding illness.

Exploring ancient Roman dream recorders and cancer vloggers, Boyer examines the deceptions and victims of illness under capitalism, as well as the long tradition of women writing about their ailments. A painful and humane analogy for cancer and the glories of contemporary life, The Undying is an incredibly illuminating study not to be missed.

Pages: 320, Dimensions: 13x13cm