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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... started flinching . Try- ing to beat out a ground ball , I would always slow down so that the throw to first base would arrive ahead of me and I'd avoid getting hit in the head with a wild toss . Batting , I was afraid of getting hit ...
... , rocks , glass in my bare feet . She ran away from me . A few years later she started smoking cigarettes , lost her wind , and became a cheerleader . Origins Holding on to the plastic strap that was attached Boys vs. Girls ( i ) 13.
... started shooting baskets after school in third grade , and I remember dusk and macadam combining into the sensation that the world was dying but I was indestructible . One afternoon I played H - O - R - S - E with a classmate , Renée ...
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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 |