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Lessons in Taxidermy / Bee Lavender

Public ISBD Title : Lessons in Taxidermy Material Type: printed text Authors: Bee Lavender, Author Publisher: Akashic Books Publication Date: 2005 Other publisher: Punk Planet Books Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Biography and personal stories Health Poverty Keywords: non-fiction  autobiography  pain  coming of age Abstract: Diagnosed with cancer at age twelve and perilously pregnant at eighteen, surviving surgeries and violent accidents: sometimes you can’t believe Bee Lavender is still alive; sometimes you think nothing could kill her. Lessons in Taxidermy is Lavender’s fierce and expressive search for truth and an elusive sense of safety. This autobiographical tale is stark and resolved, but strangely euphoric, tying together moments and memories into a frantic, delicate, and often transcendently funny account of anguish and confusion, pain and poverty, isolation and illusion. While staying conscious of the particulars of her circumstances, Lavender frames her life in the context of history, traveling, landscape, and freak show culture. Lessons in Taxidermy is apocryphal, troubling, cathartic, and important. Lessons in Taxidermy [printed text] / Bee Lavender, Author . - [S.l.] : Akashic Books : [S.l.] : Punk Planet Books, 2005. Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Biography and personal stories Health Poverty Keywords: non-fiction  autobiography  pain  coming of age Abstract: Diagnosed with cancer at age twelve and perilously pregnant at eighteen, surviving surgeries and violent accidents: sometimes you can’t believe Bee Lavender is still alive; sometimes you think nothing could kill her. Lessons in Taxidermy is Lavender’s fierce and expressive search for truth and an elusive sense of safety. This autobiographical tale is stark and resolved, but strangely euphoric, tying together moments and memories into a frantic, delicate, and often transcendently funny account of anguish and confusion, pain and poverty, isolation and illusion. While staying conscious of the particulars of her circumstances, Lavender frames her life in the context of history, traveling, landscape, and freak show culture. Lessons in Taxidermy is apocryphal, troubling, cathartic, and important.

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Barcode	Call number	Media type	Location	Section	Status
200LAV2005	200LAV2005	Livre/Book	QPIRG-McGill	Health (QM)	Available