Boob: A Story of Sex, Cancer & Stupidity is a novel about Kyra Copperfield, a woman who has just received a possibly terminal Stage IV breast cancer diagnosis before possibly being captured by a serial killer who promises to delay her torture if she amuses him by telling stories about herself-Lechter Shaharazade meets Hannibal Lechter. Kyra figures she faces a slow, painful death either way, but as she tells the story of her life, she regains the will to live and finds the courage to escape.
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... being a woman in the sixties, seventies, eighties and beyond.
If one relies on the media, women of the so-called baby boom generation are materialistic, self-involved, effortlessly wealthy, jumping from fad to fad in perpetual search of lost youth via plastic surgery and beauty potions, and unable to come to terms with age and mortality. I don't actually know any women like this, but this is the story that's going around and repeated ad infinitum, like a nasty junior high school rumor. So it's refreshing to spend a whorlwind couple of days (and you will whizz through this entrancing book) with Kyra Copperfield, who survives and lives to laugh about childhood and teenaged sex abuse, Nashville, the modelling industry, New York, self-inflicted sex-abuse in the form of rampant promiscuity in her twenties, a man-moratorium, getting sober, settling down, going on national T.V. to explain how a masturbation workshop gave her sexual sanity, a cancer diagnosis, chemo, running the NY City marathon bald, radiation, early menopause followed by a surprise baby, the emotional and financial ups and downs of being married to an actor, recurring cancer, deepening spirituality while learning to take control of her treatments and every aspect of being a woman, and living life in the present, despite cancer's sword of Damocles hanging over her head. I put this book in the same category as Sigrid Nunez's "The Last of Her Kind" and Mary Gaitskill's "Veronica" -- in offering a view of the last thirty years of American culture -- sexual and otherwise -- from a woman's perspective. It is much funnier than either, but, based on the author's life, never descends into the chick-lit foible of too many wise cracks and not enough substance. All three novels are bildungsromans of young women making their way in the world; though some are blessed with extraordinary beauty, none have the advantage of money, and most refreshing of all -- no one blames their parents. Kyra comes to understand everything that happened to her, and that she made happen, in the context of what society had to work with at the time in terms of sexual politics and pop culture. Yes, she even speculates that she may have damaged her immune system by ingesting too much foreign DNA in the form of sperm. All jokes aside, this book is a deep read that continues to haunt my dreams. So stop reading this review, and order the book!
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A funny thing happened to me on my way to chemo,
This review is from: Boob: A Story of Sex, Cancer & Stupidity (Paperback)
I never thought I would find my self laughing out loud whle reading a book about cancer. I was wrong. The sub title of this book (A story of sex, cancer and stupidity) is right on the money. But, if there is stupidity in this book, there is also brilliance . The author's equating the disease with a serial killer makes for a thought provoking read. Both the subject matter and Ms. de Balbian Verster's writing style and wit combine to make this book one of the best I've read in a very long time
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