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A carregar... This Is the Lifepor Alex Shearer
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I almost think that the author's note at the end should have been right at the beginning because it really brought the whole book into focus--no wonder "Louis's brother," the first person in this story--has so much to say about how Louis died, having experienced the loss of his own brother. There are some beautifully written parts in the book, expressing the emotions involved in watching someone die and being there, day after day, for as long as it takes. Shearer jumps back and forth in time between experiences in the past with his brother and about his brother and in each case you need to read a little to determine where you are in time with the story. You know there's death at the end but the journey on the way sort of pulls you along. ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
"In the spirit of #1 New York Times bestseller The Fault in Our Stars, a "lovely, touching book" (Alexander McCall Smith) about two estranged brothers who come together when one of them discovers he has a brain tumor and the other emerges as his caretaker. This is the life: Not the one you thought you had yesterday. Or the one that might not be here tomorrow. Just this one. Here and now... This is the story of Louis, who never quite fit in, and of his younger brother, who always tried to tag along. As they got older, they grew apart. And as they got older still, one of them got cancer, and the other became his caretaker. Then they became close again, two brothers on one final journey together, wading through the stuff that's thicker than water. Told in anecdotes as his brother remembers them, we discover who this cranky, cancerous Louis once was. That before his brain surgery he had a mind that was said to be bigger than the rest of the family's put together, and that his heart was--and still is--just as big. That it's hard getting a haircut with a brain tumor, and that it does no good to help your brother memorize a PIN number when he might not be able to remember where the bank is. We learn along with these two brothers how the little stuff is as big as the big stuff, how tragedy and comedy go together, and how necessary it is that they do. Inspired by Shearer's experiences when his own brother was dying and written with a warm touch that is at once tender and achingly funny, This Is the Life is a moving testimony to both the resilience of the human spirit and the importance of the simpler things in life, like not taking a dying man's tea kettle away"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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