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. |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 17.
... sleeping . All my life I've pretended to seek a cold , air - filled environment ( danger ) , but really what I'm drawn to is that comfortable , fluid - filled envi- ronment ( safety ) . I remember once being complimented by my mother ...
... sleep 20 hours a day , 1 - year - olds sleep 13 hours a day , teenagers sleep 9 hours , 9 Decline and Fall.
... sleep 7 hours , 50 - year - olds sleep 6 hours , and people 65 and older sleep 5 hours . As you get older , you spend more time lying awake at night and , once asleep , you're much more easily aroused . The production of melatonin ...
... sleep . I was trying to sleep . You'll wake up the house . " " I'll be quiet , Daddy . " " You need to get back in bed , Daver B. " " But I'm not tired . " " Do you have any idea what time- " " It feels so good . " Each time Peaches ...
... sleep with my favorite song , about a boy and his daddy and a mockingbird . I have a recurring dream in which I open the front door to my childhood home , and my father has a slanted block of wood , the door stop , in his hand . Without ...
Continguts
9 | |
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 |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
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 |