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Adventures of a One-Breasted Woman: Reclaiming My Moxie After Cancer
Contributor(s): Cummings, Susan (Author)

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ISBN: 0981583075     ISBN-13: 9780981583075
Publisher: Booksmyth Press
OUR PRICE: $12.30  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: September 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" L (0.63 lbs) 190 pages
 
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"You're cured now, " Susan Cummings's surgeon proclaimed to her a few weeks after her mastectomy. "That's it?" "That's it," her surgeon repeated. But, that wasn't it by a long shot for Cummings, as we learn in her memoir about her first six years after treatment for early-stage breast cancer. A single woman "progressing at lightning speed through her middle years" when diagnosed, a struggling New York actress, she takes us on her up, down and sideways adventures-sometimes poignant, often laugh-out-loud funny-as she wrangles with her fear of more cancer and shame of her altered body. But with indefatigable determination-from scouring the North American continent for the perfect health regimen to conducting a "beautiful breast survey" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art-she does reclaim her moxie
 
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