CancerVixen: A True Story - Marisa Acocella Marchetto [Graphic Autobiography]

The groundbreaking graphic memoir that inspires breast cancer patients to fight backand do so with style. Powerful A vibrant, neon chronicle with plenty of atti­tude A triumph of imagination and spirit. Los Angeles Times

What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds ... a lump in her breast?

Thats 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 cancerfrom diagnosis to cure, and every challenging step in between.

ISBN: 9780007258963

Pages: 212

Paperback

4th Estate, 2007

Good condition

B03