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McCrum, Robert

 
9781509815296: Every Third Thought: On Life, Death, and the Endgame
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1509815295 ISBN 13: 9781509815296
Verlag: Picador, 2018

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As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

'Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic' Melvyn Bragg

'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' Kate Mosse

In 1995, at the age of forty-two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke. Since that life-changing event, McCrum has lived in the shadow of death, unavoidably aware of his own mortality. And now, in his sixties, he is noticing a change: his friends are joining him there. Death has become his contemporaries’ every third thought.

And so, with the words of McCrum’s favourite authors as travel companions, Every Third Thought takes us on a journey towards death itself. This is a deeply personal book of reflection and conversation – with brain surgeons, psychologists, hospice workers and patients, writers and poets, and it confronts an existential question: in a world where we have learnt to live well at all costs, can we make peace with dying?

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert McCrum was born and educated in Cambridge. For nearly twenty years he was editor-in-chief of the publishers Faber & Faber, until he suffered a severe stroke, the subject of his acclaimed memoir, My Year Off. From 1996 to 2009 he was literary editor of the Observer and associate editor until 2018. He is also the author of Shakespearean; Every Third Thought; Wodehouse: A Life; six novels; and the co-author of the international bestseller The Story of English.

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‘There can be no better guide than a wise, humane and battered-about writer like McCrum . . . I found myself encouraged and fortified’ Andrew Marr

‘Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous’ Kate Mosse

In 1995, at the age of forty-two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke. Since that life-changing event, McCrum has lived in the shadow of death, unavoidably aware of his own mortality. And now, in his sixties, he is noticing a change: his friends are joining him there. Death has become his contemporaries’ every third thought.

And so, with the words of McCrum’s favourite authors as travel companions, Every Third Thought takes us on a journey towards death itself. This is a deeply personal book of reflection and conversation – with brain surgeons, psychologists, hospice workers and patients, writers and poets, and it confronts an existential question: in a world where we have learnt to live well at all costs, can we make peace with dying?

‘Engaging and honest . . . it is like wandering around with a wise peer, eavesdropping on his conversations’ Daily Mail

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509815295
ISBN 13 
9781509815296
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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