Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book: 101 Stories of Courage, Support & Love [Paperback]

Jack Canfield (Author), Mark Victor Hansen (Author), David Tabatsky (Author)

Book Description

Release date: March 3, 2009 | Series: Chicken Soup for the Soul

1. People turn to Chicken Soup at stressful times in their lives.  Last general CS cancer book sold 700,000 copies and is twelve years old, so time for new one

2. David Tabatsky was Consulting Editor for the very successful Marlo Thomas book, The Right Words at the Right Times 2

3. After the full length Chicken Soup book (101 stories) is bound in a free memoir from a cancer patient with intimate details of her disease and powerful advice and wisdom

4. Book includes resources section as well, with helpful medical and support resources for patients and families

A support group you can hold in your hand, this loving and inspirational collection of intimate stories,by cancer patients and their loved ones, medical professionals, clergy and friends, is a must-read for anyone affected by cancer. Writers shsre all their experiences-from the diagnosis, to breaking the news to loved ones, to discussing the effect on home, school and work, from securing a medical team to living through an ever changing self-image, from the embarrassment of losing hair to discovering a new spirituality.

 

A bonus book, a no-holds-barred memoir by cancer patient Elizabeth Bayer,is bound into this volume, after the full-length Chicken Soup for the Soul book.

 

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Chicken Soup for the Soul is revitalized,with up-to-date content and fresh new look on its fifteenth anniversary. Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen are co-founders of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

David Tabatsky is a well-regarded author of insprational and cancer books, as wel as a playwright,

journalist, and professor of writing.

Product Details

• Paperback: 440 pages
• Publisher: Chicken Soup for the Soul; 1 edition (March 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1935096303
• ISBN-13: 978-1935096306
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,417 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars At Ease April 12, 2009

By Jeffrey S. Toplin

Format:Paperback

There is a major theme that runs through everyones personal story .
No matter what the aspect there is a continual nervous feeling,no matter how brave the individual. This collection is compiled in in such a positive way that all the persons involved with their cancer and circumstances are similar.My cancer too.
Reading it at first was difficult but after the first few stories a sense of ease set in and they became meaningful.
As a person who generally avoids such books I did not put this one down. My thanks to my friend who turned me on to it.
Jeffrey Toplin

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A lens called cancer March 20, 2009

By Rebecca C. Smith

Format:Paperback

Even if you don't have cancer, you know someone who does. How can you understand them? Help them? Be the friend they need? You can start by reading this book and understanding what life looks like when viewed through the lens called cancer.

And lest you think that the book is full of morose and morbid stories, please know that this book will make you laugh and smile as much as it will make you cry; cancer seems to brings out an extraordinary range of emotions.

Understand this disease and understand better the people you love who face this disease. Read the The Cancer Book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars It Takes A Courageous Village March 16, 2009

By Hank Rosenfeld

Format:Paperback

I wish I was courageous as the people in this book. I am not. It was hard to read. But it takes more courage to write about it as these folks do. And much more than that, is just to face it straight up. All the while not knowing if the outcome would be in one's favor. That can make for an adventurous tale. And unlike a patient, a reader is rewarded for facing it. Because at the end we will find uplight, or tears.
Any book that makes you laugh and cry is wondrous indeed.
But it is the different depths of love that are revealed in this one.
Thank you for this worthy book.
As the youth say, love ya!