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Cancer Vixen

A True Story

By Marisa Acocella Marchetto

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| Hardcover | 9780307263575

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“What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds . . . a lump in her breast?” That’s the question that sets this powerful, funny, and poignContinue

“What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds . . . a lump in her breast?” That’s the question that sets this powerful, funny, and poignant graphic memoir in motion. In vivid color and with a taboo-breaking sense of humor, Marisa Acocella Marchetto tells the story of her eleven-month, ultimately triumphant bout with breast cancer—from diagnosis to cure, and every challenging step in between.

But Cancer Vixen is about more than surviving an illness. It is a portrait of one woman’s supercharged life in Manhattan, and a wonderful love story. Marisa, self-described “terminal bachelorette,” meets her Prince Charming in Silvano, owner of the chic downtown restaurant Da Silvano. Three weeks before their wedding, she receives her diagnosis. She wonders: How will he react to this news? How will my world change? Will I even survive? And . . . what about my hair?

From raucous New Yorker staff lunches and the star-studded crowd at Silvano’s restaurant to the rainbow pumps Marisa wears to chemotherapy, Cancer Vixen is a total original. Marisa’s wit and courage are an inspiration—she’s a cancer vixen, not its victim.

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  • Sick in the City

    There are already more than enough Web sites and books and pamphlets and classes about breast cancer to keep you totally well informed (and totally terrified), but few of them are any fun. Not so Marisa Acocella Marchetto’s graphic memoir, “Cancer Vi ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

  • Cancer Vixen: A True Story By Marisa Acocella Marchetto

    An even more humorous take on a grim topic is Cancer Vixen: A True Story by Marisa Acocella Marchetto. A cartoonist for the New Yorker and other publications, Marchetto was an urban glamour queen who had just started seeing a sexy Italian chef when s ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 224 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0307263576
  • ISBN-13: 9780307263575
  • Publisher: Knopf
  • Pub date: Sep 26, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 1290 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Others
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