The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead: A MemoirKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 5. 2. 2008 - 256 strán (strany) 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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A Memoir David Shields. The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead PROLOGUE Letter to My Father Let the wrestling match begin.
A Memoir David Shields. PROLOGUE Letter to My Father Let the wrestling match begin : my stories versus his stories . This book is an autobiography of my body , a biography of my father's body , an anatomy of our bodies together ...
... begin to disappear , decreasing your ability to hear specific frequencies ; higher tones are the first to go . A newborn's hands tend to be held closed , but if the area between the thumb and forefinger is stroked , the hand clenches it ...
... begins life , it knows only three things : mother , night , and water . Francis Thompson wrote , " For we are born in other's pain , / And perish in our own . " Edward Young wrote , " Our birth is nothing but our death begun . " Francis ...
... begins at 11 , may reach three inches in the peak year , and is almost completed by 14 .. At 18 , three - quarters of an inch of growth remains for boys and slightly less for girls , for whom growth is 99 percent complete . Between ages ...
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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 |