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Wit tells the story of Vivian Bearing, a renowned but uncompromising English professor who has spent years teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne. Bearing has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer, the deadly disease in which 25,000 women are diagnosed annually. During the course of her illness - and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital - she comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity, grace, and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.
Wit tells the story of Vivian Bearing, a renowned but uncompromising English professor who has spent years teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne. Bearing has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer, the deadly disease in which 25,000 women are diagnosed annually. During the course of her illness - and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital - she comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity, grace, and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.