ON IMMUNITY
An Inoculation
The anticipated follow-up to Biss’s NBCC winning Notes from No Man’s
Land
A book-length cultural exploration of vaccination,
parenthood, public health, and the body as metaphor. Includes narratives about
Biss’s son’s acquisition of language through bodily metaphor, the personal
politics of vaccination, the history of conscientious objection, vampires and
the rise of inoculation in 19th century England, predatory
capitalism, gender and sexism in medicine, body and environmental pollution,
blood banking, and many other wide ranging topics woven together with Biss’s
fierce intelligence and supple prose. The result is a sprawling but controlled tour de force by one of America’s
leading literary nonfiction practitioners.
Graywolf
Fall ‘14 Lead Title; 2014 BEA Editor’s Buzz Panel Selection; Starred
Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist reviews; Page Turner’s (The New Yorker
) ‘Books to Watch For’; Vanity Fair’s ‘Hot Type’; Entertainment Weekly’s ‘Dozen
Books We’re Dying to Read’; New York Magazine’s ‘Books to Read this Fall’;
Vulture’s (New York Magazine) ‘8 September must reads’; Publishers Weekly’s
‘Most anticipated books of fall’; Publisher’s Weekly’s “Big Indie Books of
Fall’; The Millions’ ‘Most Anticipated Books’;
Huffington Post’s ‘Best Books for Fall 2014’;
IndieBound’s Indie Next Pick for October. Bustle.com’s ‘September 2014’s Best Nonfiction Books - 7 Must-Read
Titles’; Kirkus Reviews’ ‘10 Nonfiction Books you’ll be hearing about this
fall’.
“I can’t think of an American writer at work today
who matches Eula Biss’s combination of lyrical precision, exhaustive research,
timely provocation, and fiercely examined conscience. Like so many great
nonfiction classics, On Immunity
will teach, provoke, chafe, inspire, haunt, and likely change its many readers.
—Maggie Nelson, author of The Art
of Cruelty and Bluets
“Is essayist Eula Biss Joan Didion’s heiress
apparent? …. Eula Biss' Notes From No Man's Land
is the most accomplished book of essays anyone has written or published so far
in the 21st century.”-Salon
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