The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead by David Shields Paperback Book

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

Author: David Shields

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Vintage Books USA

Published: Feb 2009

Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs

Retail Price: $15.95

Pages: 256

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.
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.

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