- Informations sur l'album
- Cancer Vixen: A True Story (2006)
- CancerVixen: A True Story
- USA
- Roman graphique
- 216207
- Acocella Marchetto, Marisa
- Acocella Marchetto, Marisa
- Zamajtuk, Jason
- 09/2006
- non coté
- Random House
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Autre format
- 978-0-307-26357-5
- 224
- 12/05/2014 23:44:37 (maj 15/05/2014 21:40:23)
- Info édition : First hardcover edition with dust jacket.
- Résumé: “What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds . . . a lump in her breast?” That’s the question that sets this powerful, funny, and poignant graphic memoir in motion. In vivid color and with a taboo-breaking sense of humor, Marisa Acocella Marchetto tells the story of her eleven-month, ultimately triumphant bout with breast cancer—from diagnosis to cure, and every challenging step in between. But Cancer Vixen is about more than surviving an illness. It is a portrait of one woman’s supercharged life in Manhattan, and a wonderful love story. Marisa, self-described “terminal bachelorette,” meets her Prince Charming in Silvano, owner of the chic downtown restaurant Da Silvano. Three weeks before their wedding, she receives her diagnosis. She wonders: How will he react to this news? How will my world change? Will I even survive? And . . . what about my hair? From raucous New Yorker staff lunches and the star-studded crowd at Silvano’s restaurant to the rainbow pumps Marisa wears to chemotherapy, Cancer Vixen is a total original. Marisa’s wit and courage are an inspiration—she’s a cancer vixen, not its victim.