The Thing About Life Is That One Day ...
David ShieldsAmazon Significant Seven, February 2008: 'After you turn 7, your risk of dying doubles every eight years.' By your 80s, you 'no longer even have a distinctive odor ... You're vanishing.' 'The brain of a 90-year-old is the same size as...
THE BOY WHO BECAME A REBEL. THE REBEL WHO BECAME A SOLDIER. THE SOLDIER WHO BECAME AN ICON. THE ICON WHO DISAPPEARED. Raised in Park Avenue privilege, J. D. Salinger sought out combat, surviving five bloody battles of World War II, an...
Enough About You: Notes Toward the Ne...
David ShieldsWhat does it mean to construct a self? What does it mean to turn your life into a narrative? What's gained? What's lost? What lies inevitably get told? What deeper truths are reached or at least reached for? Enough About You has no an...
How Literature Saved My Life (Vintage...
David ShieldsBlending confessional criticism and cultural autobiography, David Shields explores the power of literature to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Evoking his deeply divided personality, his character flaws, his woes, his ser...
A landmark book, “brilliant, thoughtful” (The Atlantic) and “raw and gorgeous” (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author of The Thing About Life Is ...
The Thing about Life Is That One Day ...
David ShieldsMesmerized 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 ...