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The end of your life book club / by Will Schwalbe. |
| Authors: | Schwalbe, Will. |
| Call number: | 362.196694 SCH |
| Publisher: | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. |
| Publication date: | 2012. |
| Subject: |
Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships -- United States. |
| Title: | The end of your life book club / by Will Schwalbe. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | viii, 336 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents note: | Crossing to safety -- Appointment in Samarra -- Seventy verses on emptiness -- Marjorie Morningstar -- The hobbit -- Daily strength for daily needs -- The people of the book -- "I am sorrow" -- The uncommon reader -- The lizard cage -- Brat Farrar -- Continental drift -- The painted veil -- Murder in the cathedral -- Wherever you go, there you are -- Kokoro -- The price of salt -- The reluctant fundamentalist -- The year of magical thinking -- Olive Kitteridge -- Girls like us -- Suite française -- The bite of the mango -- The elegance of the hedgehog -- The girl with the dragon tattoo -- Brooklyn -- My father's tears -- Too much happiness. |
| Summary note: | The inspiring story of a son and his dying mother, who form a "book club" that brings them together as her life comes to a close. |
| ISBN: | 9780307594037 0307594033 |
| LCCN: | 2012018989 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1400109 |
| Bib No.: | 1400109 |