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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead by Shields, David
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- Bon
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- Binding
- Audio CD
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9780739359280
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
- Publisher
- Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, General, Medical
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Product Information
An audiobook of extraordinary depth and resonance, this work is sure to move listeners to contemplate the brevity and radiance of their own sojourn on Earth and challenge them to rearrange their thinking in unexpected and crucial ways. Unabridged. 5 CDs.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0739359282
ISBN-13
9780739359280
eBay Product ID (ePID)
61638500
Product Key Features
Book Title
Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, General, Medical
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Dimensions
Item Length
6.3in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
6.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
Reviews
Praise for The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead "A double-memoir-commonplace book in which [Shields] presents his and his father's life stories, lovingly encrusted with facts about aging and death (it turns out your soul doesn't weigh 21 grams after all) . . . The result is an edifying, wise, unclassifiable mixture of filial love and Oedipal rage." -Lev Grossman, Time Magazine "Shields is a sharp-eyed, self-deprecating, at times hilarious writer. Approaching the flatline of the last page, we want more." Stephen Bates, The Wall Street Journal "Enthralling . . . Fascinating . . . Ultimately, the humanity of Shields' interior and exterior exploration is what makes The Thing About Life and life itselfworthwhile." -Meredith Maran, The San Francisco Chronicle "Shields undergoes his midlife crisis and comes out the other side more accessible than ever before, more tender, 'nicer.' And yet The Thing About Life adroitly sidesteps sentimentalityvery hard to do when the core of it is a son's love for his cranky, tenacious, irascible, geriatric, Jewish father. I love this book."David Guterson "[An] informative and occasionally unsettling meditation on [Shields's] own aging body and his [97-year-old] nonagenarian father's seemingly endless vigor and strength . . . He writes with great candor about the vitality of his father. . . Also woven into the text are clever quotes on matters corporeal from the likes of Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, Woody Allen, and Martha Graham. Shields's memoir is a sobering, at times poignant, reminder that none of us gets out of this life alive."Booklist "David Shields has accomplished something here 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." -Jonathan Lethem "It' s a bold writer who dares to tackle head-on the subject of what it means to be human something that David Shields does with an extraordinary mixture of tenderness, humor, and inexhaustible curiosity." -Jonathan Raban " The Thing About Life grabbed me from the start. It's extremely compelling, gorgeous in many places. I loved it. And I wish I had written it."Lauren Slater, Praise for The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead "A double-memoir-commonplace book in which [Shields] presents his and his father's life stories, lovingly encrusted with facts about aging and death (it turns out your soul doesn't weigh 21 grams after all) . . . The result is an edifying, wise, unclassifiable mixture of filial love and Oedipal rage." -Lev Grossman, Time Magazine "Shields is a sharp-eyed, self-deprecating, at times hilarious writer. Approaching the flatline of the last page, we want more." Stephen Bates, The Wall Street Journal "Enthralling . . . Fascinating . . . Ultimately, the humanity of Shields' interior and exterior exploration is what makes The Thing About Life and life itselfworthwhile." -Meredith Maran, The San Francisco Chronicle "Shields undergoes his midlife crisis and comes out the other side more accessible than ever before, more tender, 'nicer.' And yet The Thing About Life adroitly sidesteps sentimentalityvery hard to do when the core of it is a son's love for his cranky, tenacious, irascible, geriatric, Jewish father. I love this book."David Guterson "[An] informative and occasionally unsettling meditation on [Shields's] own aging body and his [97-year-old] nonagenarian father's seemingly endless vigor and strength . . . He writes with great candor about the vitality of his father. . . Also woven into the text are clever quotes on matters corporeal from the likes of Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, Woody Allen, and Martha Graham. Shields's memoir is a sobering, at times poignant, reminder that none of us gets out of this life alive."Booklist "David Shields has accomplished something here 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." -Jonathan Lethem "It' s a bold writer who dares to tackle head-on the subject of what it means to be human something that David Shields does with an extraordinary mixture of tenderness, humor, and inexhaustible curiosity." -Jonathan Raban " The Thing About Life grabbed me from the start. It's extremely compelling, gorgeous in many places. I loved it. And I wish I had written it."Lauren Slater From the Hardcover edition., Praise forThe Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead "A double-memoir-commonplace book in which [Shields] presents his and his father's life stories, lovingly encrusted with facts about aging and death (it turns out your soul doesn't weigh 21 grams after all) . . . The result is an edifying, wise, unclassifiable mixture of filial love and Oedipal rage." -Lev Grossman,Time Magazine "Shields is a sharp-eyed, self-deprecating, at times hilarious writer. Approaching the flatline of the last page, we want more." Stephen Bates,The Wall Street Journal "Enthralling . . . Fascinating . . . Ultimately, the humanity of Shields' interior and exterior exploration is what makesThe Thing About Lifeand life itselfworthwhile." -Meredith Maran,The San Francisco Chronicle "Shields undergoes his midlife crisis and comes out the other sidemore accessible than ever before, more tender, 'nicer.' And yetThe ThingAbout Lifeadroitly sidesteps sentimentalityvery hard to do when the core of it is a son's love for his cranky, tenacious, irascible, geriatric, Jewish father. I love this book."David Guterson "[An] informative and occasionally unsettling meditation on [Shields's] own aging body and his [97-year-old] nonagenarian father's seemingly endless vigor and strength . . . He writes with great candor about the vitality of his father. . . Also woven into the text are clever quotes on matters corporeal from the likes of Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, Woody Allen, and Martha Graham. Shields's memoir is a sobering, at times poignant, reminder that none of us gets out of this life alive."Booklist "David Shields has accomplished something here 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." -Jonathan Lethem "It's a bold writer who dares to tackle head-on the subject of what it means to be humansomething that David Shields does with an extraordinary mixture of tenderness, humor, and inexhaustible curiosity." -Jonathan Raban "The Thing About Lifegrabbed me from the start. It's extremely compelling, gorgeous in many places. I loved it. And I wish I had written it."Lauren Slater From the Hardcover edition., Praise forThe Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead "Shields undergoes his midlife crisis and comes out the other sidemore accessible than ever before, more tender, 'nicer.' And yetThe ThingAbout Lifeadroitly sidesteps sentimentalityvery hard to do when the core of it is a son's love for his cranky, tenacious, irascible, geriatric, Jewish father. I love this book."David Guterson "[An] informative and occasionally unsettling meditation on [Shields's] own aging body and his [97-year-old] nonagenarian father's seemingly endless vigor and strength . . . He writes with great candor about the vitality of his father. . . Also woven into the text are clever quotes on matters corporeal from the likes of Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, Woody Allen, and Martha Graham. Shields's memoir is a sobering, at times poignant, reminder that none of us gets out of this life alive."Booklist "David Shields has accomplished something here 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." -Jonathan Lethem "It's a bold writer who dares to tackle head-on the subject of what it means to be humansomething that David Shields does with an extraordinary mixture of tenderness, humor, and inexhaustible curiosity." -Jonathan Raban "The Thing About Lifegrabbed me from the start. It's extremely compelling, gorgeous in many places. I loved it. And I wish I had written it."Lauren Slater From the Hardcover edition., Praise for "The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead" "Shields undergoes his midlife crisis and comes out the other side-more accessible than ever before, more tender, 'nicer.' And yet "The Thing" "About Life" adroitly sidesteps sentimentality-very hard to do when the core of it is a son's love for his cranky, tenacious, irascible, geriatric, Jewish father. I love this book."-David Guterson "[An] informative and occasionally unsettling meditation on [Shields's] own aging body and his [97-year-old] nonagenarian father's seemingly endless vigor and strength . . . He writes with great candor about the vitality of his father. . . Also woven into the text are clever quotes on matters corporeal from the likes of Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, Woody Allen, and Martha Graham. Shields's memoir is a sobering, at times poignant, reminder that none of us gets out of this life alive."-Booklist "David Shields has accomplished something here 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." --Jonathan Lethem "It's a bold writer who dares to tackle head-on the subject of what it means to be human-something that David Shields does with an extraordinary mixture of tenderness, humor, and inexhaustible curiosity." --Jonathan Raban ""The Thing About Life" grabbed me from the start. It's extremely compelling, gorgeous in many places. I loved it. And I wish I had written it."-Lauren Slater "From the Hardcover edition.", Praise forThe Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead "David Shields has accomplished something here 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." -Jonathan Lethem "It's a bold writer who dares to tackle head-on the subject of what it means to be humansomething that David Shields does with an extraordinary mixture of tenderness, humor, and inexhaustible curiosity." -Jonathan Raban "The Thing About Lifegrabbed me from the start. It's extremely compelling, gorgeous in many places. I loved it. And I wish I had written it."Lauren Slater From the Hardcover edition.
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