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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... skin . That , too , is my father : I keep on urging him to don skin , and he keeps declining . I seem to have an Oedipal urge to bury him in a shower of death data . Why do I want to cover my dad in an early shroud ? He's strong and ...
... skin , which is reddened , moist , and deeply creased . Swelling formed by pressure during the pas- sage through the birth canal may have temporarily deformed the nose , caused one or both eyes to swell up , or elongated the head into a ...
... skin felt wet . No one knew ; no one could know . I knew it was private , but I didn't know why . Forgetting that I should have been in bed and , if not under the covers , at least not creat- ing such a commotion , I rocked faster ...
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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 |