{"product_id":"on-being-ill","title":"Virginia Woolf: On Being Ill [2022] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeople everywhere have found themselves faced with a global pandemic, during which we have learned to cope with sickness and all that accompanies it: isolation, immunity, loss of control, and recovery. Yet while no longer taboo, illness remains an unpopular theme in literature. In her essay, \u003ci\u003eOn Being Ill \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginia Woolf \u003c\/b\u003easks whether illness should not receive more literary attention, taking its place alongside the recurring themes of \"love, battle and jealousy\". \u003cbr\u003e The subtle complexities of Woolf's essay will no doubt continue to be resonant for a new generation of readers today. In this collaborative volume, authors, translators and illustrators have come together from Great Britain, Ireland, the United States and the Netherlands to represent past, present and future thinking about illness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Noteworthy contributions to this edition are \u003cb\u003eDeryn Rees-Jones\u003c\/b\u003e' preface to Woolf's essay from 1926 and the introduction to \u003cb\u003eAudre Lorde\u003c\/b\u003e's \u003ci\u003eThe Cancer \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournals\u003c\/i\u003e of 1980. Against these, the voices of contemporary authors resonate as they contemplate the interactions between sickness and literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Readers are able to begin the book at the end, or might happily start in the middle, as every contribution is a unique, personal piece which offers poignant observations of the world of illness from within. Writing, as well as reading, about illness, is a form of love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woolf, Virginia \u0026 Rees-Jones, Deryn \u0026 Marsman, Lieke \u0026 Osborne-Crowley, Lucia \u0026 Van Zonneveld, Mieke","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43017944924345,"sku":"9781874320777","price":19.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/woolf-virginia-on-being-ill-9781874320777-39815663092002.jpg?v=1667586235","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/on-being-ill","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}