Cancer Stories: Lessons in Love, Loss, and Hope - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0937058882 ISBN 13: 9780937058886

Publisher: West Virginia University Press, 2005

Synopsis

an account of families in West Virginia that have dealt with cancer and the repurcussions the illness has had on their lives.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Cancer Stories: Lessons in Love, Loss, and Hope gives a personal, in-depth look at people battling cancer and the friends and relatives who care for them. This book offers a poignant look at their lives and the effect that cancer has on them. Cancer Stories was the result of the Cancer Project sponsored by the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University where journalism students were paired up with cancer patients in order to learn about their experiences. The large format book contains a series of photo essays and stories written in a narrative, highly accessible style. It is a must read for anyone interested in how cancer patients and their friends and relatives are able to find wonder and hope in one of life's most trying ordeals. Also included is a DVD of the award-winning documentary that inspired the book.

About the Author:

John Temple and Joel Beeson are assistant professors in The Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University. Temple teaches news and feature-writing courses and heads the News-Editorial sequence. He is a creative nonfiction author and a former staff writer for the Tampa Tribune. Beeson's specialty area is visual journalism. He has an MA from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism and is doing doctoral work on social documentary and new media with marginalized communities.

About this edition

• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0937058882
• ISBN 13: 9780937058886
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: TEMPLE JOHN, BEESON JOEL