The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead

The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead

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Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father’s vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-and-blood existence, our mortal being.Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers – from Lucretius to Woody Allen – Shields expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality.

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Weight 0.181 kg
Dimensions 1.6 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
Format
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Pages

256
Publisher

Year Published

2011-3-3
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0141049499
About The Author

David Shields is the author of nine other books, including Reality Hunger and Black Planet, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has been translated into a dozen languages.www.davidshields.com

So pure and wide in its implications that I think of it almost as a secular, unsentimental Kahlil Gibran: a textbook for the acceptance of our fate on earth
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Breathtaking . . . Shields had us laughing out loud, even in the face of death

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