Death and the Elephant

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My life had been going nowhere. Until I was diagnosed with cancer.12 June 1995. On his twenty-eighth birthday, Raz Shaw was a directionless gambling addict doing a telesales job that was eating up every trace of what soul he had left. The next day he would be diagnosed with stage 4 sclerosing mediastinal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the large cell type.As he tells it, cancer saved his life. He was given the all-clear in March 1996, and stopped gambling for good that April. After a year away recuperating, he turned his back on the highly paid job that had devoured him and re-assimilated himself into the world of theatre that had once made him feel so alive.It took him a long time to realise quite how much these recoveries were bound up with one another – now he is ready to tell his story.Death and the Elephant is a memoir of living through and beyond illness and addiction. Blessed with the ability to find humour even in life's darkest...