‘Rita Lee: Another Biography’ chronicles the emotional ‘roller coaster’ experienced by her and her family as they battle a persistent and treacherous illness
It’s the last days of Rita Lee narrated by herself that we find in Rita Lee: another biography, book That Globe Editor spear this Monday, 22, Feast of Santa Rita de Cássia, as the singer wanted. In her last fight, Rita has faced a lingering, treacherous and unpredictable illness. Diagnosed with lung cancer in the midst of the pandemic, after being vaccinated against Covid-19, the singer experienced respiratory distress and went for tests. What she would discover there would transform her life, lead her to anguish, deep reflection and close the great show of his life for 75 years on May 8th.
Between comings and goings to Albert Einstein Hospital to carry out more tests and radio and chemotherapy sessions, Rita decided to write about what she was experiencing. With the same style developed for yours autobiography, published in 2016which allowed her to make the most intimate confessions and confessions using the varnish of good humor and self-sarcasm, the author continued to give her version of walking the fine line that separated her from death.
The most devastating of the setbacks was experienced by Rita and her family when, after celebrating victory for total remission of lung cancer, doctors discovered that the disease had migrated. According to sources close to the family, everyone’s feeling right now was that, after a brief sigh of relief, the ground was opening up again. The return of the disease was not publicized and many reported that Rita was returning to the hospital for follow-up examinations of the disease.
How far Rita has to open the details of her last days, the book that will hit stores this Monday will reveal. Conversations with those who have already read the originals show that it won’t be a publication with “crying” or anything resembling self-help. It wouldn’t be Rita Lee.
The only words of the singer on the release were written in a post published on the day of the official announcement of the book: “When I decided to write Rita Lee: a biography, in 2016, the book marked, in a certain sense, the farewell to the ritual person, the one on stage, since I had retired from concerts. I thought nothing else that noteworthy could happen in my stupid life. But it’s that old story: While we’re making plans and thinking we know something, God gives a sarcastic chuckle.”
Rita Lee: another biography
Author: Rita Lee
Publisher: Globo (192 pages; BRL 64.90; BRL 44.90 for e-book)
Source: Terra
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