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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead

The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead

by David Shields (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-and-blood existence, our mortal being. Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers - from Lucretius to Woody Allen - Shields expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 03 Mar 2011
ISBN 10: 0141049499
ISBN 13: 9780141049496

Media Reviews
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
Breathtaking . . . Shields had us laughing out loud, even in the face of death * Timeout, Chicago *
Mix equal parts of anatomy and autobiography, science and self-disclosure, physiology and family history; shake, stir, add dashes of miscellany, pinches of borrowed wisdom, simmer over a low-grade fever of mortality, and a terrible beauty of a book is born -- Thomas Lynch * Boston Globe *
Shields is a sharp-eyed, self-deprecating, at times hilarious writer * Wall Street Journal *
Author Bio
David Shields is the author of nine other books, including Reality Hunger and Black Planet, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has been translated into a dozen languages. www.davidshields.com