Wait Time

A Memoir of Cancer

By: Kenneth Sherman

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Paperback | 5 January 2016

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154 Pages

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20.32 x 13.34 x 0.91

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When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations that blossomed into this powerful memoir. With incisive and evocative language, Sherman presents a clear-eyed view of what the cancer patient feels and thinks.

Sherman's narrative voice is personal but not confessional, practical but not cold, thoughtful and searching but not self-pitying or self-absorbed. The author's wait time for surgery on a malignant tumor was exceptionally long and riddled with bureaucratic bumbling, and he asks our health-care providers and administrators if the Canadian healthcare system cannot be made efficient and more humane. While he is honest about what is good and bad in the system, he is not stridently political or given to directing blame. His narrative is interwoven with engaging ruminations on the meaning of illness in society, and is peppered with references to other writers' thoughts on the subject. A widely published poet, Sherman helps the reader understand the deep connection between disease and creativity--the ways in which we write out of our suffering.

Wait Time will be of special interest to anyone facing a serious illness as well as to health-care providers, social workers, and psychologists working in the field. Its thoughtful observations on health, life priorities, time, and mortality will make it of interest to all readers.

Industry Reviews

Wait Time, by noted Canadian poet Ken Sherman, is an honest, clear-sighted, humorous and at times eloquent entree into [the category of cancer memoir], not any less gripping because of a happy ending. (He survives.)" -- Philip Marchand -- The National Post, 20160203

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