Rearranged: An Opera Singers Facial Cancer And Life Transposed Watt Kathleen
Rearranged: An Opera Singers Facial Cancer And Life Transposed Watt Kathleen In lyrical prose, with musical allusions, clinical references, and a bit of comic relief, Rearranged follows Kathleen…
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Rearranged: An Opera Singers Facial Cancer And Life Transposed Watt Kathleen
In lyrical prose, with musical allusions, clinical references, and a bit of comic relief, Rearranged follows Kathleen Watt's plunge from the operatic stage into the netherworld of hospital life-its indigenous creatures, its peculiar language, its signposts of the mysterious human condition-through the devastation of cancer, and out the other side. Instead, a vicious bone cancer blew her plans to smithereens, along with her face. Kathleen was a New York opera singer at mid-career, with a steady, lucrative chorus job at the Metropolitan Opera and solo gigs elsewhere, anticipating her best year ever.
Bit by bit, through a brutal alchemy of lethal toxins, titanium screws, and infinite kindness, she discovered new arrangements for old pieces, in a life catastrophically transposed. She had to let everything go. Not only a heart-wrenching medical odyssey, but an ultimately joyous