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Rearranged - An Opera Singer's Facial Cancer and Life Transposed - cover

Rearranged - An Opera Singer's Facial Cancer and Life Transposed

Kathleen Watt

Editorial: Heliotrope Books

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Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Books of the Year (2023)
PenCraft Book Award for Best Nonfiction (Winter 2024)
In lyrical prose, with musical allusions, clinical references, and a bit of comic relief, Rearranged follows Kathleen Watt's plunge from the operatic stage into the netherworld of hospital life through the devastation of cancer, and out the other side. Kathleen was a New York opera singer at mid-career, with a steady, lucrative chorus job at the Metropolitan Opera and solo gigs elsewhere, anticipating her best year ever. Instead, a vicious bone cancer blew her plans to smithereens, along with her face. Bit by bit, through a brutal alchemy of toxins, titanium screws, and infinite kindness, she discovered new arrangements for old pieces, in a life catastrophically transposed. Not only a heart-wrenching medical odyssey, but an ultimately joyous personal journey of transformation.
Disponible desde: 10/10/2023.
Longitud de impresión: 383 páginas.

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