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Author Shields, David, 1956-

Title The thing about life is that one day you'll be dead / David Shields.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Biography  BIO Shields    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xvi, 225 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary The author melds personal history with frank biological data about every stage of life, creating an "autobiography about my body" that seeks meaning in death, but moreover, life. Shields filters his frank--and usually foreboding--data through his own experience as a 51-year-old father with burgeoning back pain, contrasting his own gloomy tendencies with the defiant perspective of his own 97-year-old father, a man who has waged a lifelong, urgent battle against the infirmities of time.--From amazon.com.
Subject Shields, David, 1956-
Shields, David, 1956- -- Family.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Fathers and sons -- United States.
ISBN 9780307268044
0307268047

 
    
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