Survival Rates

Survival Rates

Mary Clyde’s stories explore not so much what has happened already but what happens next. Illness bristles through the book, magnifying emotional undercurrents: two teenage girls survive surgery and the prospect of never eating popcorn again; the stoicism of a husband with cancer infuriates his wife. Set in the desert Southwest, these stories show the influence of a landscape populated with cat-eating coyotes and car-crushing boulders. The characters are relative newcomers, some sharing the author’s Mormon heritage. But they are survivors, relying on the ironies and blessings of ongoing life. Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.The nine stories in Mary Clyde’s debut collection are populated by people in crisis. There are cancer victims and divorcees, doctors with personal problems and boyfriends with inferiority complexes. Some of the pieces are downright hilarious, others are quietly ironic, but all are branded with Clyde’s offbeat perspective and quirky prose. Consider the title story, in which a married landscape architect is abashed by the form of cancer he’s diagnosed with: “Dr. Rodgers, insisting that cancers have personalities, has told them thyroid cancer lacks any real oncological ambition.” Bad enough to have cancer to begin with, but to be afflicted by “an embarrassment to the whole cancer community” is the straw that eventually breaks the architect’s marriage. Both the humor and the cancer are deadlier in “Krista Had a Treble Clef Rose,” in which two teenage girls who have met on an oncology ward fight to maintain their sense of normalcy in the face of surgeries, restricted diets, and ostomy bags: “I’ve got three hairs left,” one tells the other at a lunch counter in a mall. “I’m playing up my eyes.” Not every

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1 System of Survival 5:00
2 Evil Roy 4:52
3 Thinking of You 4:41
4 You and I 4:03
5 Musical Interlude: New Horizons 2:01
6 Money Tight 4:37
7 Every Now and Then 4:20
8 Touch the World 5:16
9 Here Today and Gone Tomorrow 3:59
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Tube feeding fails to improve survival rates.(Clinical Rounds): An article from: Family Practice News

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Title: Tube feeding fails to improve survival rates.(Clinical Rounds)
Author: Heidi Splete
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 15, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 36 Issue: 6 Page: 71(1)

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Endometrial cancer survival rates similar for laparoscopy, laparotomy.(Women’s Health): An article from: Internal Medicine News

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Title: Endometrial cancer survival rates similar for laparoscopy, laparotomy.(Women’s Health)
Author: Miriam E. Tucker
Publication: Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 15, 2005
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 38 Issue: 4 Page: 40(1)

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Simplified CPR Guidelines May Double Survival Rate.: An article from: Family Practice News

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Title: Simplified CPR Guidelines May Double Survival Rate.
Author: Mary Ann Moon
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 15, 2000
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 30 Issue: 20 Page: 1

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HIV-positive kidney recipients could have same 1-year survival rates as those without HIV, study finds.: An article from: Transplant News

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Title: HIV-positive kidney recipients could have same 1-year survival rates as those without HIV, study finds.
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Transplant News (Newsletter)
Date: February 1, 2009
Publisher: Transplant Communications, Inc.
Volume: 19 Issue: 2

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Lupus erythematosus 10-year survival rate now reaches 93%: disease better understood.(Clinical Rounds): An article from: Skin & Allergy News

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Title: Lupus erythematosus 10-year survival rate now reaches 93%: disease better understood.(Clinical Rounds)
Author: Nancy Walsh
Publication: Skin & Allergy News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2003
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 34 Issue: 10 Page: 52(1)

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