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'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, and Baby's child Bunny, whose cells are multiplying alarmingly.
'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 illuminate all the hidden parts that make you human.' (Publication summary)
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The 17 Best Books of 2023
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 22 January 2024;
— Review of The Sitter 2023 single work novel ; Killing for Country : A Family Story 2023 multi chapter work criticism ; The Conversion 2023 single work novel ; The Vitals 2023 single work prose ; Right Story, Wrong Story : Adventures in Indigenous Thinking 2023 multi chapter work criticism ; Praiseworthy 2023 single work novel ; Edenglassie 2023 single work novel ; Women and Children 2023 single work novel ; The Art of Breaking Ice 2023 single work novel ; I'd Rather Not 2023 single work autobiography ; On Peter Carey : Writers on Writers 2023 single work biography ; New Australian Fiction 2023 2023 anthology short story ; Critic Swallows Book : Ten Years of the Sydney Review of Books 2023 anthology review essay -
Diseased Organs at War
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 August 2023; (p. 15)
— Review of The Vitals 2023 single work prose -
Tracy Sorensen's Unusual Cancer Memoir The Vitals Lets Her Body's Organs Tell the Story
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , August 2023;
— Review of The Vitals 2023 single work prose'Cancer radically changed author Tracy Sorensen.'
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‘It’s Some Sort of Cosmic Joke’ : Tracy Sorensen Wrote a Book about Surviving Cancer. Now It Has Returned
2023
single work
column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 25 July 2023;
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Tracy Sorensen's Unusual Cancer Memoir The Vitals Lets Her Body's Organs Tell the Story
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , August 2023;
— Review of The Vitals 2023 single work prose'Cancer radically changed author Tracy Sorensen.'
-
Diseased Organs at War
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 August 2023; (p. 15)
— Review of The Vitals 2023 single work prose -
The 17 Best Books of 2023
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 22 January 2024;
— Review of The Sitter 2023 single work novel ; Killing for Country : A Family Story 2023 multi chapter work criticism ; The Conversion 2023 single work novel ; The Vitals 2023 single work prose ; Right Story, Wrong Story : Adventures in Indigenous Thinking 2023 multi chapter work criticism ; Praiseworthy 2023 single work novel ; Edenglassie 2023 single work novel ; Women and Children 2023 single work novel ; The Art of Breaking Ice 2023 single work novel ; I'd Rather Not 2023 single work autobiography ; On Peter Carey : Writers on Writers 2023 single work biography ; New Australian Fiction 2023 2023 anthology short story ; Critic Swallows Book : Ten Years of the Sydney Review of Books 2023 anthology review essay -
‘It’s Some Sort of Cosmic Joke’ : Tracy Sorensen Wrote a Book about Surviving Cancer. Now It Has Returned
2023
single work
column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 25 July 2023;