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About Marisa Acocella Marchetto
See more books from this AuthorIn flashbacks to the years before her diagnosis, Marchetto details the conspicuous consumption and competitive cattiness of life in New York magazine circles, before 9/11 put such frivolities on hold.
Jul 15 2006 | Read Full Review of Cancer Vixen: A True StoryThere are already more than enough Web sites and books and pamphlets and classes about breast cancer to keep you totally well informed (and totally terrified), but few of them are any fun.
Oct 22 2006 | Read Full Review of Cancer Vixen: A True StoryIn 2004, the price of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment to Acocella Marchetto, aged 43 - a sum she would have had to find herself had her husband's insurance not stepped in - amounted to $192,720.04.
Jan 13 2007 | Read Full Review of Cancer Vixen: A True StoryCancer Vixen tells the story of what happens next, and how her inner circle— stylists, gossip columnists, shoe designers and assorted others you'd only find in New York City, rallies round to help her beat the disease and get married on time and in high style.
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Oct 21 2006 | Read Full Review of Cancer Vixen: A True StoryThe driving question behind Marisa Marchetto’s graphic memoir is, "What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist … with a fabulous life finds … a lump in her breast?"
Aug 21 2007 | Read Full Review of Cancer Vixen: A True StoryCancer also sometimes shows up as the Grim Reaper, a more standard image, and she and Cancer talk.
Oct 21 2009 | Read Full Review of Cancer Vixen: A True StoryI found this book so evocative of my own cancer experience (minus the fabulous Silvano, sigh) that I recommend it to anyone surviving or in treatment for breast cancer, and to anyone close to someone surviving or diagnosed with breast cancer.
Dec 06 2006 | Read Full Review of Cancer Vixen: A True StoryAn aggregated and normalized score based on 67 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes