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Avalanche: A Love Story by Julia Leigh: New
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2016-08-02
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN
- 9780393292763
- Book Title
- Avalanche : a Love Story
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Health & Fitness, Biography & Autobiography, Medical
- Topic
- Women, Reproductive Medicine & Technology, Infertility, Personal Memoirs, Parenting / Motherhood
- Item Weight
- 9.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393292762
ISBN-13
9780393292763
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219352253
Product Key Features
Book Title
Avalanche : a Love Story
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Women, Reproductive Medicine & Technology, Infertility, Personal Memoirs, Parenting / Motherhood
Genre
Family & Relationships, Health & Fitness, Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-010871
Reviews
With searing intelligence and unflinching emotional clarity, Julia Leigh lays bare the exacting nature of desire. Avalanche is consummately ravishing., It is one of the first intelligent, personal accounts of the daily business of IVF, and as such will surely be a useful (albeit rather demoralising) resource for other women. She describes the grueling rounds of injections, blood tests and scans, and the bloating and physical depletion that result. However, it's a book that rightly has wider ambitions, because these insistent, lengthy attempts to become pregnant raise more elemental questions about what it means to desire a child., Deeply personal, insightful and raw--Julia Leigh's story of her desire for a baby is beautifully told. I didn't want to put this brave book down for a second., Julia Leigh writes beautifully and honestly and has a rare gift for bringing the reading along as if a trusted friend. Her stories of love and loss, friendship and sorrow make Avalanche entirely relatable.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
616.6/92
Synopsis
In this brave and lucid account, Julia Leigh broaches a challenging life event often left undiscussed: how the struggle to have a child can take an agonizing toll. Leigh's experience at the vanguard of medical science is acutely rendered, physically and emotionally, transmitting what it feels like to so desperately wish for a child while knowing that the odds are stacked against you. From the daily shots she puts herself through at home, to hopes raised and dashed, and finally to the decision to stop treatment, Avalanche bears witness to Leigh's raw desire, suffering, strength, and, in the end, transformation--a shift to a different kind of love. The reader looks behind the scenes of a clinic and discovers how things really work: reality is a far cry from the slick marketing of the billion-dollar infertility industry. As for so many women, Leigh's treatment failed, but her ghost child lingers in memory.
LC Classification Number
RC889.L444 2016
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