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  The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (Vintage) (Paperback) By (author) David Shields

  

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  Short Description for The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be DeadIn this beautifully written book, part philosophical meditation and part physiological examination, Shields confronts his own mortality and that of his persistently optimistic, and seemingly age-defying father.
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  • Publisher: Vintage Books USA
  • Published: 10 February 2009
  • Format: Paperback 225 pages
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  • Categories: Memoirs
  • ISBN 13: 9780307387967 ISBN 10: 0307387968
  • Sales rank: 215,365

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Full description for The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead

• 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.The Thing About Life provokes us to contemplate the brevity and radiance of our own sojourn on earth and challenges us to rearrange our thinking in crucial and unexpected ways.