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Nina Riggs (1977–2017)

Auteur de The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

2+ oeuvres 470 utilisateurs 25 critiques 1 Favoris

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Nina Riggs was a poet and author. She received her MFA in poetry in 2004. Her collection of poems, Lucky, Lucky, was published in 2009. She wrote a blog entitled Suspicious Country, where she wrote about living with metastatic breast cancer. She wrote a memoir entitled The Bright Hour. She passed afficher plus away in February 2017. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

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Date de naissance
1977-03-29
Date de décès
2017-02-26
Sexe
female
Nationalité
USA
Professions
teacher
memoirist
poet
Organisations
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Memoir of short essays by young woman diagnosed with breast cancer that then progresses to Stage IV terminal diagnosis. The book chronicles her experiences as her own mother dies of cancer during her treatment, with a friend with a similar disease progression, and dealing with her marriage and her young children as life and the disease move on.

It's written very well and conveys her feelings while leaving out most of the terrible details of her illness.
 
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hmonkeyreads | 24 autres critiques | Jan 25, 2024 |
Brilliant and beautiful. Funny, charming, heartbreaking. Is it weird that I feel proud the author was from Greensboro?! Highly recommended.
 
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fmclellan | 24 autres critiques | Jan 23, 2024 |
nonfiction / cancer memoir (posthumous publication) by poet and mother of two young boys (and apparently, descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson), diagnosed at age 37 with what would turn out to be a very aggressive form of breast cancer

short chapters with humor and light make this easy to read, sad content makes it hard to forget.
 
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reader1009 | 24 autres critiques | Jun 17, 2023 |
This is an extraordinary accomplishment. Exactly how the author was able to stay on task to complete this is inspiring in a way. Very well written. Highly recommended
 
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Cantsaywhy | 24 autres critiques | May 22, 2023 |

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Œuvres
2
Aussi par
1
Membres
470
Popularité
#52,371
Évaluation
4.1
Critiques
25
ISBN
19
Langues
2
Favoris
1

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