The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead: A MemoirNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers, a book that expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality. |
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... Girls ( i ) Origins Paradise , Soon Lost News Flash : We Are Animals Motherhood The Actuarial Prime of Life , or Why Children Don't Like Spicy Food Sex and Death ( i ) Hoop Dream ( ii ) Bloodline to Star Power ( 1 ) XV 3 9 12 14 19 935 ...
... Girls ( iii ) Sex Changes ( Everything ) Memento Mori The Trouble with Being Food Everything I Know I've Learned from My Bad Back Notes on the Local Swimming Hole Sex and Death ( iii ) Hoop Dream ( viii ) 87 98 102 104 108 III 114 121 ...
... Girls ( iv ) 160 Chronicle of Death Foretold 164 Death Is the Mother of Beauty 173 Life Is That Which Gives Meaning to Life 176 How to Live Forever ( i ) 181 How to Live Forever ( ii ) 189 Last Words 194 Bloodline to Star Power ( iii ) ...
... die , but it wasn't a reality . " So , too , for myself , being the father of an annoyingly vital 14 - year - old girl only deepens these feelings . I'm no longer athletic ( really bad XV PROLOGUE: Letter to My Father.
Contents
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Paradise Soon Lost | 19 |
Motherhood | 27 |
Hoop Dream ii | 34 |
Rattlesnake Lake | 43 |
3 | 48 |
Boys vs Girls ii | 49 |
Superheroes | 59 |
27 | 112 |
Notes on the Local Swimming Hole | 121 |
Hoop Dream viii | 135 |
Decline and Fall iii | 139 |
The Thing About Life Is That One | 151 |
Boys vs Girls iv | 160 |
29 | 163 |
Death Is the Mother of Beauty | 173 |
Hoop Dreams iv and | 66 |
Ye Olde MindBody Problem | 78 |
Decline and Fall ii | 87 |
14 | 91 |
Bloodline to Star Power ii | 98 |
19 | 103 |
Sex Changes Everything | 104 |
The Trouble with Being Food | 111 |
How to Live Forever i | 181 |
114 | 184 |
How to Live Forever ii | 189 |
Bloodline to Star Power iii | 200 |
The Story Told One Last Time | 211 |
Notes for Eulogy for My Father | 218 |
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 227 |