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092			_aD'AGUIAR F. _bD128
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100	1		_aD'Aguiar, Fred, _d1960- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aYear of plagues : _ba memoir of 2020 / _cFred D'Aguiar.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bHarper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, _c[2021]
264		4	_c©2021
300			_a323 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aDrawing from two cultural perspectives, an acclaimed British-Guyanese writer and award-winning poet combines personal reminiscence and philosophy to reflect on a year of personal and global crisis, as he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
505	0		_aOut of this time -- I do not want to alarm you -- Is this what dying looks like? -- Fred, do not be afraid -- You are my mortal enemy -- To fall, falling, and never land -- Help me, Anansi -- What Brer Rabbit did -- Surely I'm to be saved -- Hello, Miss Corona. Meet Mister Cancer -- The maddening pain -- The city is dying -- I listen and hear more -- I wake with his name on my tongue -- As long as I draw breath -- Juneteenth -- My father's body.
520			_a2020. The world around D'Aguiar was shattered by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the United States, California burned... and D'Aguiar was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Here he confronts profound questions about the purpose of pursuing a life of writing and teaching in the face of overwhelming upheavals; the imaginative and artistic strategies a writer can bring to bear as his sense of self and community are severely tested; and the quest for strength and solace necessary to help forge a better future. The resulting memoir is a paean of resistance to despotic authority and life-threatening disease. -- adapted from jacket
600	1	0	_aD'Aguiar, Fred, _d1960-
650		0	_aAuthors, Guyanese _y21st century _vBiography.
650		0	_aCancer _xPatients _zUnited States _vBiography. _957092
650		0	_aCOVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
650		0	_aTwo thousand twenty, A.D.
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
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