| Cancer on Five Dollars a Day (Chemo Not Included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life Contributor(s): Schimmel, Robert (Author), Eisenstock, Alan (With) |
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ISBN: 0738213187 ISBN-13: 9780738213187 Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2009 Annotation: Stand-up comedian Robert Schimmel's edgy, hilarious, and poignant musings on his battle with cancer |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Health & Fitness | Diseases - Cancer - Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients) |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.60 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the spring of 2000, stand-up comedian Robert Schimmel was diagnosed with stage III non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and soon the fire of his white-hot career started to fizzle. But Schimmel never lost his sense of humor, his searing honesty, and most of all, his passion to make people laugh. Indeed, it was his basic need to entertain--even if the only people around him were suffering from cancer and the room he was playing was the Mayo Clinic infusion center--that carried him through his ordeal. Alternately laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving, Cancer on 5 a Day is a stirring account of how one man's face-off with a deadly disease helped him better understand himself, and ultimately changed his life. |