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100			_aAcocella Marchetto, Marisa
245		0	_aCancer vixen: a true story
260			_aLondon _bFourth Estate _c2007
300			_a211; ill.; BookFind
520			_aPaperback
520			_aWhat happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, madly-in-love, single-forever, about-to-get-married big city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds...A LUMP IN HER BREAST!? Marisa Acocella Marchetto - said New York cartoonist and downtown party girl - answers this question, and many more, in this touching and often funny comic-strip chronicle of her 11-month battle with breast cancer. Drawing (literally) on everything from her first mammogram to radiation treatments, she tells the story of her illness with honesty, bravery and searing Manhattanite humour. Unflinching in her observations and unflagging in spirit, Marchetto confronts the disease head-on, refusing to become a cancer 'victim'. Instead, she wears designer shoes to her chemo sessions and marries her long-time love, Manhattan restaurateur Silvano Marchetto, along the way laughing and crying with her friends, arguing with her mother (a.k.a. 'smother') and striking up conversations with God. While laughing in the face of her illness at every available opportunity, Marchetto never trivialises it. 'Cancer Vixen' is courageous, honest, funny and frightening, but above all, it achieves the almost impossible, in taking a woman's worst fear and transforming it into something uplifting, inspiring and life-affirming.
650			_aBREAST NEOPLASMS
650			_aCARTOONS
650			_aGRAPHIC NOVELS
650			_aPERSONAL NARRATIVES
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