Death and the Elephant
by
Raz Shaw
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1783524774
ISBN-13
9781783524778
Publisher
Boundless Publishing Group Ltd
Imprint
Unbound Digital
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 8th, 2018
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
434 grams
Dimensions
22.10 x 15.50 x 2.90 cms
Product Classification:
MemoirsCoping with illness & specific conditions
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An irreverent memoir about fighting cancer and gambling addiction, from acclaimed theatre director Raz Shaw
My life had been going nowhere. Until I was diagnosed with cancer.
12 June 1995. On his twenty-eighth birthday, Raz Shaw was a directionless gambling addict doing a telesales job that was eating up every trace of what soul he had left. The next day he would be diagnosed with stage 4 sclerosing mediastinal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma of the large cell type.
As he tells it, cancer saved his life. He was given the all-clear in March 1996, and stopped gambling for good that April. After a year away recuperating, he turned his back on the highly paid job that had devoured him and re-assimilated himself into the world of theatre that had once made him feel so alive.
It took him a long time to realise quite how much these recoveries were bound up with one another – now he is ready to tell his story.
Death and the Elephant is a memoir of living through and beyond illness and addiction. Blessed with the ability to find humour even in life’s darkest moments, Raz charts his struggles with irreverence and unflinching perspective. This is his story, but it’s also a universal one – an honest, funny, sometimes raw, and often inappropriate glimpse into the mind of a young man dealing with a life-threatening illness in the only way he knows how: by laughing in its face.
12 June 1995. On his twenty-eighth birthday, Raz Shaw was a directionless gambling addict doing a telesales job that was eating up every trace of what soul he had left. The next day he would be diagnosed with stage 4 sclerosing mediastinal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma of the large cell type.
As he tells it, cancer saved his life. He was given the all-clear in March 1996, and stopped gambling for good that April. After a year away recuperating, he turned his back on the highly paid job that had devoured him and re-assimilated himself into the world of theatre that had once made him feel so alive.
It took him a long time to realise quite how much these recoveries were bound up with one another – now he is ready to tell his story.
Death and the Elephant is a memoir of living through and beyond illness and addiction. Blessed with the ability to find humour even in life’s darkest moments, Raz charts his struggles with irreverence and unflinching perspective. This is his story, but it’s also a universal one – an honest, funny, sometimes raw, and often inappropriate glimpse into the mind of a young man dealing with a life-threatening illness in the only way he knows how: by laughing in its face.
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