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Lessons in Taxidermy

Lessons in Taxidermy

by Bee Lavender (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

    $3.25
Synopsis

Diagnosed with cancer at age twelve and perilously pregnant at eighteen, surviving surgeries and violent accidents: sometimes you can't believe Bee Lavender is still alive; sometimes you think nothing could kill her. Bee Lavender holds nothing back as she recounts her life spent in and out of hospitals and her subsequent dissociation from her own body and emotions. She struggles with health problems from birth, which are compounded by her surroundings, including frequent encounters with street fights, domestic violence and poverty. Her voice is as strong as the front she puts up for the multitude of doctors she sees, and it's hard not to be in awe of what one fragile human being can withstand in the course of such a short lifetime. Her strength and sheer determination to live make this striking book completely engrossing.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 21 Mar 2007
ISBN 10: 0753822504
ISBN 13: 9780753822500
Book Overview: An inspiring story of triumph over tragedy - there is a strong market for books in this genre To include 'Questions for Discussion' for Reading Groups 'You know how sometimes you read a book that's so powerful, you find you keep flipping to the back to look at the author's photo? Lessons in Taxidermy has that effect' Time Out New York 'Witnessing her strength and sheer determination to live makes this striking book completely engrossing' Publishers Weekly (starred review) Nominated for a Quills award and selected as an American Library Association Popular Paperbacks Best Book of the Year The book was on the Village Voice bestseller list and was in the 'top ten of 2005' in several US publications '[One of] the reigning mother superiors of the crowd [is] Bee Lavender' Time Magazine 'Bee Lavender -- writer, activist, mother of two -- is definitely hot' Borders.com

Media Reviews
'The delightfully named Bee Lavender's Lessons in Taxidermy details a childhood plagued by a series of cancers and disabilities of mysterious origin...[it's the] sparse elegant language and the acceptance of larger, unexplainable forces in her life that gives this memoir its power...Her powerful, elegant memoir should be read by everyone who has ever praised anything from Dave Pelzer industry, as an example of what truly well-written and unflinching self-examination can be like.' -- Kate Bevan SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'This is a well-written, thought provoking book. Difficult at times to read, but equally difficult to put down.' NEW BOOKS MAG (March / April) 'an incredible tale of survival.' -- Shari Low DAILY RECORD
Author Bio
Bee Lavender is a writer, editor, publisher and activist. After living in the Pacific Northwest in the States for thirty-three years she moved to the UK where her office is a canal boat moored on the River Cam. More information about Bee is available on her website www.foment.net.