LEADER 03002nam 2200505 450 001 9910792637503321 005 20230810001819.0 010 $a1-941411-34-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000001022505 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4774071 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001022505 100 $a20170125h20172017 uy h 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe brand new catastrophe $ea memoir /$fMike Scalise 210 1$aLouisville, Kentucky :$cSarabande Books,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (323 pages) 311 $a1-941411-33-9 330 $a"Winner of the Center for Fiction's Doheny Prize Mike Scalise hits his stride in this page-turner of a memoir featuring a sudden and strange sequence of medical disasters. From its gripping ruptured-brain-tumor emergency room opening, through a series of medical procedures and oddball doctors, Scalise creates a sharply observed, uproariously funny, and deeply moving account of acromegaly, the hormone disorder best known for causing gigantism. Scalise weaves in meticulous research, social history, and vignettes about Andre the Giant and a variety of Hollywood acromegalic villains. He creates a narrative that is informative without feeling pedantic, demonstrating how he has marshaled the narrative of his life so that he can control it rather than being controlled by it. Although his medical story is the primary subject, the emotional engine driving the book is that of his relationship with his mother, a longtime sufferer in her own right, with a chronic cardiac condition likely exacerbated by her penchant for chain smoking and late-night white wine binges. Fraught, frustrating, and often very funny, Scalise's mother-often positioned as his competitor for the spotlight or the status of "best sick person"-winds up being the book's unlikely hero. Mike Scalise's work has appeared in Agni, Indiewire, the Paris Review, Wall Street Journal, and other places. He has received fellowships and scholarships from Bread Loaf, Yaddo, the Ucross Foundation, and was the Philip Roth Writer in Residence at Bucknell University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAuthors, American$vBiography 606 $aBrain$xTumors$xPatients$vBiography 606 $aSick$xPsychology 606 $aDiseases$vHumor 606 $aMedical care$vHumor 606 $aMothers and sons$vBiography 615 0$aAuthors, American 615 0$aBrain$xTumors$xPatients 615 0$aSick$xPsychology. 615 0$aDiseases 615 0$aMedical care 615 0$aMothers and sons 676 $a818.603 686 $aBIO017000$aHUM011000$aHIS054000$2bisacsh 700 $aScalise$b Mike$01549876 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792637503321 996 $aThe brand new catastrophe$93808246 997 $aUNINA