The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead: A MemoirKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 5 de febr. 2008 - 256 pàgines NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers, a book that expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality. |
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... friends were crossing train tracks in Brooklyn when my father , last in line , stepped directly on the third rail , which transformed him from a happy vertical child into a horizontal Our Birth Is Nothing but Our Death Begun 7.
... friends at Skate King , where the lights are low , the mirror ball glitters , the music crescendos every 30 seconds ... friends bought Best Friends split neck- laces : one girl wears one half while her best friend wears the other . There ...
... friends bought plastic roses for themselves . Two teenaged kids were feverishly making out in a far corner . Duly noted by my father , who informed the management— quickly remedied . A quirky Puritanism : his abhorrence of any public ...
... friends , bad girls , reputed " drug addicts " -to whose yearbook photos I masturbated throughout eighth grade . At the time , this activity seemed magical , private , perverse , unique , all- important . It wasn't . It was blood ...
... did stuff like that as a kid , and he said , “ Are you kidding ? You drove me and your mother up a wall , especially that first year . What a crybaby ! " News Flash : We Are Animals My friend Suzanne e 22 The Thing About Life.
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19 | |
Motherhood | 27 |
Hoop Dream ii | 34 |
Rattlesnake Lake | 43 |
3 | 48 |
Boys vs Girls ii | 49 |
Superheroes | 59 |
27 | 112 |
Notes on the Local Swimming Hole | 121 |
Hoop Dream viii | 135 |
Decline and Fall iii | 139 |
The Thing About Life Is That One | 151 |
Boys vs Girls iv | 160 |
29 | 163 |
Death Is the Mother of Beauty | 173 |
Hoop Dreams iv and | 66 |
Ye Olde MindBody Problem | 78 |
Decline and Fall ii | 87 |
14 | 91 |
Bloodline to Star Power ii | 98 |
19 | 103 |
Sex Changes Everything | 104 |
The Trouble with Being Food | 111 |
How to Live Forever i | 181 |
114 | 184 |
How to Live Forever ii | 189 |
Bloodline to Star Power iii | 200 |
The Story Told One Last Time | 211 |
Notes for Eulogy for My Father | 218 |
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 227 |
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead David Shields Previsualització no disponible - 2009 |
The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead David Shields Previsualització no disponible - 2010 |