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No Obvious Distress (A John Murray Original)
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Product Details
Author:
Amanda Quaid
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
144
Publisher:
John Murray Press (October 7, 2025)
Imprint:
John Murray
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781399824569
ISBN-10:
1399824562
Weight:
5.76oz
File:
hbgusa-hbgusa_onix30_P9951261_04132026-20260413.xml
Folder:
hbgusa
List Price:
$21.99
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Pub Discount:
65
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$16.93
Publisher Identifier:
P-HACH
Discount Code:
A
Dimensions:
5.385" x 8.5"
Case Pack:
72
Overview
'Funny, moving, wise and constantly surprising' Martin Chilton, Independent Memoir of the Month
'Astonishing. These poems glimmer with a white-hot beauty that is hard won, and that sings' Sarah Ruhl
'Striking, surprising, and technically excellent, the poems resonate way beyond their endings' Roger Robinson
Patient is a normal appearing woman in no obvious distress.
On an ordinary day, out with her three-year-old in the park, Amanda Quaid received a life-changing call - the back pain she had been living with for years was actually a rare and aggressive form of cancer. In an instant, life became a series of sterile rooms, medical charts and body-altering treatments which completely upend Amanda's marriage, work and family life as she knows it.
Poetry became a lifeline for Amanda, a form to organize the chaos and pain of day-to-day life into order and beauty. In inventive and arresting poems that explore desire, marriage, motherhood and mortality, No Obvious Distress is a powerful memoir-in-verse about Amanda's unique experience. But it is also a tender, witty and universal collection that asks how we can continue to live and love in times of uncertainty.
'Astonishing. These poems glimmer with a white-hot beauty that is hard won, and that sings' Sarah Ruhl
'Striking, surprising, and technically excellent, the poems resonate way beyond their endings' Roger Robinson
Patient is a normal appearing woman in no obvious distress.
On an ordinary day, out with her three-year-old in the park, Amanda Quaid received a life-changing call - the back pain she had been living with for years was actually a rare and aggressive form of cancer. In an instant, life became a series of sterile rooms, medical charts and body-altering treatments which completely upend Amanda's marriage, work and family life as she knows it.
Poetry became a lifeline for Amanda, a form to organize the chaos and pain of day-to-day life into order and beauty. In inventive and arresting poems that explore desire, marriage, motherhood and mortality, No Obvious Distress is a powerful memoir-in-verse about Amanda's unique experience. But it is also a tender, witty and universal collection that asks how we can continue to live and love in times of uncertainty.








