Ruth L. Schwartz
Ruth L. Schwartz is the author of four books of poems, each the
winner of a national award; and the author of a memoir, Death in
Reverse: A Love Story. Her creative nonfiction has appeared ...
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Death In Reverse
A Love Story
Ruth L. Schwartz
“One chilly blue morning in May, a surgeon angled a six-inch cut
along my side, then reached in and removed my healthy right kidney.
Four hours later, he spliced that kidney into my partner Ana’s
thigh,
and her ‘death in reverse’ began.”
A medical drama, a
memoir, and a love story all in one, Death in Reverse
chronicles Ruth Schwartz’s life with her partner, Ana, during the
tumultuous twelve months following transplant surgery. Four days
after surgery, came a terrifying rejection episode—and the high-tech
medicine and guided visualization that turned it around. In the
months that followed, Ruth and Ana coped with ongoing medical
complications that crippled Ana and strained their relationship;
they
followed complex, phenomenally expensive treatment regimens, came
face-to-face with the very real limits of Western medicine, and
discovered simple remedies for some of the problems doctors could
not
solve.
Anyone who has ever dealt with a major health
problem—or cared for a sick partner—will identify with this portrait
of a couple struggling to maintain emotional and sexual intimacy
while confronting the myriad challenges of chronic illness and
disability.
PRAISE FOR Death in
Reverse
"This is an honest, tender, heart-
wrenching, funny, sexy and ultimatley affirming narrative...an
important book for anyone who is awaiting an organ transplant,
anyone
who has received one, anyone considering donating an organ....an
important book for anyone who loves someone,
period...."
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Liz Walden, NASA Human Factors Engineer
Reviews
"Schwartz's writing style is
simple, earthy and
descriptive...pulls no
punches...we end up raeally
caring for the women, rooting
for their relationship to
survive...." - Gabriella
West, author of Time of
Grace; reviewed in
Lambda Book Report
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World Rights
144 pp., 6.00" x 9.00", 2004
Paper, $19.95,
0-87013-706-9
978-0-87013-706-8
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