- Title:
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The Vitals (MP3)
- Written by:
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Tracy Sorensen
- Read by:
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Victoria Graves
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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7 hours 11 minutes
- MP3 size:
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311 MB
- Published:
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August 28 2023
- Available Date:
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August 28 2023
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781038647115
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan Australia
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From the author of The Lucky Galah comes another inventive, playful and thought-provoking exploration of very human stories from non-human perspectives.
Deep inside Tracy's body live the organs of the peritoneal cavity.
Ute, a wandering womb.
Rage, an existential spleen.
Gaster, a gleeful gorger.
Liv, a workaholic liver.
But there is also Baby, an ever-growing tumour.
Together, the organs must fight for homeostasis ... and Tracy's survival.
The Vitals is Tracy Sorensen's cancer memoir transformed by imagination into something far richer and stranger. Narrated by her internal organs, it will make you infinitely more aware of the peculiar world inside your body and discover all the hidden parts that make you human.
'The Vitals is suffused by courage of this kind – and I'm grateful to Sorensen for risking so much to bring this book into being.'
Ceridwen Dovey, award-winning author of Only the Animals
'Tracy Sorensen writes and thinks like nobody else. We're so lucky to have her.'
Tegan Bennett Daylight, author of Safety and Bombora
'The Vitals quivers with life. It is thrillingly visceral and deeply moving - literally.'
Stephen J. Simpson, author of The Nature of Nutrition: A Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity
'A bold and astoundingly brave novel ...' (on The Lucky Galah)
The Newtown Review of Books