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Dying

A Memoir
By Cory Taylor
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Dying by Cory Taylor is a poignant reflection on life as the author faces her own mortality. With eloquence and candour, Taylor explores her experiences, thoughts, and emotions regarding death while also sharing insights into her life journey. This memoir is a deeply moving meditation on the inevitability of dying and the richness of living.
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Cory Taylor wrote this remarkable book in the space of a few weeks before her death from cancer in July 2016. In a tremendous creative surge, as her body weakened, she described the experience of knowing she would soon die.

Her powerful and beautifully written book is a clear-eyed account of the tangle of her feelings, her reflections on her life, her memories of the lives and deaths of her parents. She tells us why it was important to her to have the ability to choose the circumstances of her death.

Dying: A Memoir is a breathtaking book about vulnerability and strength, courage and humility, anger and acceptance. It is a deeply affecting meditation on dying, but it is also a funny and wise tribute to life.

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Dying by Cory Taylor has been praised as a powerful and poignant memoir, exploring the themes of autonomy, life, and death with clarity and courage. Reviewers commend its eloquence, emotional depth, and intellectual engagement, highlighting Taylor's ability to address the unpredictability of life and the finality of death. The book is celebrated for its vivid writing, offering both a personal reflection and a broader dialogue on end-of-life issues, making it a significant contribution to discussions on mortality.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781925498639

Publisher: Text Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 April 2017

Country: Australia

Imprint: The Text Publishing Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 160

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Biography & Memoir Cory Taylor Education & Reference Grief & Loss Non-Fiction Penguin Books

About the Author

Cory Taylor was born in Queensland in 1955. She was an award-winning novelist and screenwriter who also published short fiction and children's books. Her first novel, Me and Mr Booker, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Pacific Region) in 2012 and her second novel, My Beautiful Enemy, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2014. She died on 5 July 2016, just months after Dying: A Memoir was published.

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