[sic] A Memoir

Name: [sic] A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780393343922

ISBN-10: 0393343928

ISBN-13: 9780393343922

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Authors: Joshua Cody

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Joshua Cody, a brilliant young composer, was about to receive his PhD when he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. Facing a bone marrow transplant and full radiation, he charts his struggle: the fury, the tendency to self-destruction, and the ruthless grasping for life and sensation; the encounter with beautiful Ariel, who gives him cocaine and a blow job in a Manhattan restaurant following his first treatment; the detailed morphine fantasy complete with a bride called Valentina while, in reality, hospital staff are pinning him to his bed.Moving effortlessly between references to Don Giovanni and the Rolling Stones, Ezra Pound and Buffalo Bill, and studded with pages from his…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Joshua Cody received his bachelor's degree in music composition from Northwestern University, and his master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University. Joshua is a composer living in New York City. This is his first book.




The Divine Proportion



Act II



The Slave Market



The Catalogue Aria



Sister Morphine



Was Picasso Smart?



A Series of Vignettes, Which Turn to Melodrama



Gutenberg's Folly



The Age of Innocence



Canal Street


Acknowledgments


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