The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
by David Shields
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Author: David ShieldsEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-05
ISBN: 0307268047
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Knopf
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Summary: 5 Stars
And what a trip! I was mesmerized by Shields' adroit juxtapositions of facts, quotations, personal anecdotes and sheer musings. In perfect counterpoint, his logical, reasoning reporter voice succumbs to his non-linear, subjective yarn-spinner meanderings, and so it goes -- the thrust and parry of right-brain-then-left-brain advances, leaps, detours, and backtracks. I have to agree with at least half of what he says was written about him on the wall of a ladies' restroom, "David Shields is a great writer and a babe to boot." (The former is definitely accurate and if he inherited even a little of his father's self-described magnetism, I'm sure the latter is equally true!) Thanks for this wonderful, unforgettable book.
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