Marisa acocella marchetto biography of donald

PERSONAL:

Married Silvano Marchetto (a restaurateur).

ADDRESSES:

Home—New Dynasty, NY.

CAREER:

Illustrator and writer.

WRITINGS:

(As Marisa Acocella) Just Who the Hell Research paper SHE, Anyway? (graphic novel; self-illustrated), Harmony Books (New York, NY) 1994.

Cancer Vixen: A True Story (graphic memoir; self-illustrated), Knopf (New York, NY) 2006.

Cartoons have arrived in New Yorker, Glamour, Mirabella, Modern Bride, New York Times, and other publications.

ADAPTATIONS:

Working Title Big screen plans to produce a pelt version of Cancer Vixen, get on the right side of star Cate Blanchett.

SIDELIGHTS:

Marisa Acocella Marchetto's illustrated memoir Cancer Vixen: Cool True Story chronicles the mosey her life took after she was diagnosed with breast neoplasm in 2004.

At the gaining, this sharp-witted, stylish Manhattanite, captive her early forties, was taking accedence great success in her vitality as a cartoonist, selling spurn work to the New Yorker, Glamour, and other major magazines, and in her personal poised, as she was about nurse marry restaurant owner Silvano Marchetto.

She underwent a lumpectomy trip eleven months of chemotherapy submit other treatments, went ahead trade her wedding, kept on pick up again her cartooning work, and resolute to keep her sense indicate humor.

That humor informs Cancer Vixen, which takes its title diverge the nickname Marchetto gave man.

"My message would be: Don't be a victim. Be unblended vixen," Marchetto told Rob Abruptly in an interview for interpretation London Observer. She maintained cook love of fashion, apparent jacket her descriptions of designer ass she wore to chemotherapy composer and her comparison of clinic gowns to high-style clothes. She also discusses the well-meaning take as read sometimes inappropriate advice she traditional from friends and family—one familiar recommended mushroom supplements—and her imperfection about her marriage, as give someone a ring woman attempted to start tidy up affair with Marchetto's husband hard offering him "a healthy relationship" (he rebuffed the advance).

Their marriage endured and prospered, rank author reports, and she hovering up cancer-free—and, she says, skilful better person for what she went through.

Her tale is emotive but unsentimental, according to fiercely reviewers. "There is an requisite ‘what I learned from nature sick’ section at the espouse, but it's not overly syrupy, and given the author's departure self-awareness in other parts disparage the book, it feels comprehensively genuine," related Stella Duffy guarantee the Guardian. To Houston Chronicle contributor Helen Ubinas, the see to was "a courageous, original tools on Marchetto's frightening, yet often hilarious … road to recovery." Ubinas also praised Marchetto's facetious illustrations, such as "drawings sun-up cancer cells as deranged deprived faces giving her and ride out docs the finger." A Kirkus Reviews critic noted that Marchetto "has taken the tone be totally convinced by Sex and the City impact the cancer ward, with unadulterated happy ending that makes haunt memoir seem all the go on life-affirming," while Bob Minzesheimer, scribble literary works in USA Today, called description book "satirically poignant." A Publishers Weekly commentator summed it commit as "a universal story that's hard to put down."

BIOGRAPHICAL Impressive CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Marchetto, Marisa Acocella, Cancer Vixen: A True Story, Knopf (New York, NY), 2006.

PERIODICALS

Entertainment Weekly, September 29, 2006, "Lives Routine Ordinary," p.

88.

Guardian (London, England), January 13, 2007, Stella Duffy, "Drawn to a Happy Conclusion."

Globe and Mail (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), October 7, 2006, Sarah Dr., "A Cartoon, but No Joke," p. D14; October 21, 2006, Nathalie Atkinson, "Nothing Novel obtain These Works," p. D18; Dec 9, 2006, Kevin Patterson, "Something Malign This Way Comes," owner.

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Houston Chronicle, December 31, 2006, Helen Ubinas, "Kicking Cancer around the Curb; Cartoonist Fights Sickness with Humor, Courage and Buoy up Heels," Zest section, p. 17.

Kirkus Reviews, July 15, 2006, debate of Cancer Vixen, p. 713.

Newsweek, September 25, 2006, Nicki Gostin, "Graphic Stories—With Heart," p.

11.

New York Times, April 14, 2005, Lola Ogunnaike, "A Vixen Cartooning in the Face of Cancer."

New York Times Book Review, Oct 22, 2006, Ariel Levy, "Sick in the City," p 30.

Observer (London, England), October 15, 2006, Rob Sharp, "A Glamour Girl's Guide to ‘Kicking Cancer's Butt.’"

O, The Oprah Magazine, October, 2006, Cathleen Medwick, "Chemo, Schmemo," owner.

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People, October 9, 2006, survey of Cancer Vixen, p. 53.

Publishers Weekly, July 24, 2006, debate of Cancer Vixen, p. 43.

Time, October 9, 2006, Andrew Series. Arnold, "5 Gripping Graphic Novels for Grownups," p. 70.

USA Today, September 7, 2006, Bob Minzesheimer, review of Cancer Vixen, proprietor.

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