Cancer and Death: A Love Story in Two Voices (Health Communication) [Paperback]

Leah Vande Berg (Author), Nick Trujillo (Author)

Book Description

Series: Health Communication | Publication Date: July 21, 2008

In this book, Leah and Nick tell the story of their lives together and about how their love for each other sustained them during Leah's 14-month ordeal with Stage IV ovarian cancer. This book is one of the most honest accounts ever written about cancer, death, grief and life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 163 pages
• Publisher: Hampton Press; 1 edition (July 21, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572738510
• ISBN-13: 978-1572738515
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #915,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful moving text, December 7, 2008

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This review is from: Cancer and Death: A Love Story in Two Voices (Health Communication) (Paperback)

This is a co-created narrative, two voices on cancer: the patient and the patient's significant other. It is an autoethnography on death and surviving the loss of a loved one. It shows us how to go on, no matter how painful that is, and how we can learn and grow through loss.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In A Class of Its Own, March 6, 2009

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Stuart Lazarus (Columbus, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cancer and Death: A Love Story in Two Voices (Health Communication) (Paperback)

I found this book both beautifully written, compelling at every turn, and utterly unusual. By highlighting the realities of living while dying, it demonstrates to anyone willing to listen, that death is indeed very much a part of life. It is not even a little bit preachy, but rather a "what we went through" and "how we did it" that is at once mundane, profound, and nakedly self-disclosing.

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing journey through love and death, June 15, 2011

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This review is from: Cancer and Death: A Love Story in Two Voices (Health Communication) (Paperback)

I had to read this book for a class but was overwhelmed by not only its true account of love and death but the powerful and positive message that the book leaves the reader with. Wether you have loved someone with Cancer or not Nick and Leah's story will deeply affect you. A must read!!