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Take Off Your Party Dress: When Life's Too Busy for Breast Cancer | 
 enlarge | Author: Dina Rabinovitch
Publisher: Pocket Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 108691
Media: Paperback
Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1416527885
EAN: 9781416527886
ASIN: 1416527885
Publication Date: March 19, 2007
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What everyone needs ... April 15, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is just the book that anyone going through an experience like that of the writer needs to read. It's practical,informative, insightful and tells it as it is in a positive and constructive way. In fact, it's the book that anyone going through a similar experience should read as well as those around them to gain a better understanding of the process. The writer manages to be upbeat through the ongoing treatment and anguish providing inspiration to everyone whilst still managing to get on with the day to day business of living. A must read
truly excellent book April 5, 2007
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I bought this book because I enjoyed Dina Rabinovitch's articles in the Guardian and wanted to read more by her. Her writing is certain and careful and finely considered, and also so immediate and personal that it was only after I finished the book that I realized how much she must have left out, i.e., how finely-crafted this narrative is. While I was reading it, I felt that I was in the center of her life and experiences with her, and I felt privileged to be there even when that was a frightening and painful place to be. But afterwards, thinking of friends of mine living with cancer, I was left with the realization of all she didn't write, her fair-mindedness, the choices she must have made about what to share and what to keep to herself. It's confessional in the way that all fantastic writing is confessional, and it is impersonal in that way as well. Although it is billed (?) as a 'memoir', it is the kind of book that opens the door to Rabinovitch's world(s) (Hendon, family, reviewing, cancer) in a kind of beautifully-constructed gift to the reader. It's a difficult book to read at times, but I was sorry when it came to an end. I finished the book wishing that I knew her, wishing her well, and wishing that another book, on any topic at all, was on its way.
Informative and very moving March 30, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have had the pleasure of meeting Dina Rabinovitch in a professional capacity and all I can say is - thank God someone decided to publish this book after it was turned down by many other short-sighted publishing companies. This is not just a book for people suffering from cancer, it is a book for everyone. It is a fascinating, moving, sad and sometimes shockingly honest account fo what happens when a mother of eight children - from two marriages - finds out she has breast cancer. There is no deliberate tear jerking here, just honesty about the whole complicated process of diagnosis, masectomy, drug trials, intravenous herception etc....It is obvious that the author is intelligent and motivated (which she is in real life) and I recommend this book to everyone....
Excellent read March 28, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a moving, informative and compelling account of the author's experience of breast cancer, written with insight and self-deprecating humour.
The book is easy to read and focuses on Dina Rabinovitch's (generally successful) attempts to juggle the demands of a large extended family with the onerous and debilitating medical treatments connected with her illness.
She emerges as an extremely feisty, brave and resourceful individual. The book deserves every success.
Take Of f Your Party Dress March 20, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I read this book in one go but I'll be revisiting it in the future. The book is surprisingly easy to read. The daily rhythm of Dina's busy life gives it momentum and energy. The book meshes together the glamour of book launches, ordinary family and domestic events and the grind of hospital appointments. The unbearable sadness of living with serious illness lies beneath the surface. It is the author's lightness of touch that makes the this such a compulsive read. And the fact that all proceeds from the book are going to a charity to provide independent research into cancer, makes me want to recommend it even more.
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