Gillian Rose
1995
Around 145 pages
It's 1995! Which is the year that yours truly came on the scene. So we will no longer be referring to any books on this List as "old." And we get to celebrate with an autobiography written while the author was dying from ovarian cancer. The List always knows how to party.
So this is a surprisingly short memoir about Gillian Rose's experience with cancer and background. The perspective of a dying person is going to be completely different. She didn't try to disguise her fear or the weight of what was happening.
It's emotional, well-written, and if you can go out writing a critically acclaimed autobiography, that's a pretty good way to go.
RATING: ****-
Interesting Facts:
Rose held the chair of social and political thought at the University of Warwick until 1995.
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