The last kiss
Subtitle: a true story of love, joy and loss
By: Leslie Brody
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Title Town Pub.; Titletown Publishing, LLC
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Green Bay, WI
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780982720653; 9780985247867
Subjects: Cancer; Biography; Patients; Terminally ill; Family relationships; Spouses; Death; Children of cancer patients; Psychological aspects; Bereavement; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Personal Memoirs
Description: Leslie Brody, a newspaper reporter and mother of two, thought her life was finally heading in the right direction when she married Elliot, a romantic, funny and brilliant editor with three children of his own. But six years after their wedding, they learned that Elliot, only 55, had pancreatic cancer--and would be lucky to live for a year or two. With a journalist's eye for intimate detail, Leslie shows how they made the very most of the time they had left together. Told with heart, humor and compelling immediacy, The Last Kiss is a love story about the life-affirming power of a passionate marriage, the importance of loyal friends, and the resilience of children growing up through one of life's harshest trials. This is the most important story she has ever told.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Contents; Prologue; Two Weddings; The Things He Carried; Italy, June 2006; Be a Gladiator, July 2006; Win This For My Boys, August 2006; What to Say; The Things I Carried; Last Kisses, October 2006; My Kind of Faith; My Guides to the Wilderness; Adventures in Weed, December 2007; Insta-Nurse, January 2007; Belonging; Waiting, April 2007; What About the Rest of Us? April 2007; Why I Began to Write, May 2007; Wisps of Worry, Summer 2007; Dumb Things People Say; Escape, October 2007; War and Peace and Pancakes; Dolphins, January 2008; When it Rains ... Later in January 2008.; title: A Letter from ElliotHow to Sleep With Yoour Husband in a Hospital Bed, May 2008; The Peach, Summer 2008; Celebration, September 2008; Where's Roger? October 2008; Looking Over the Abyss, November 2008; Home; Thanksgiving, 2008; 9-1-1; Drifting Away, December 13, 14 & 15; The Perfect Thing; The First Days; And Then; Why a Widow Needs a Puppy; Jiminy Cricket, Summer 2009; Gratitude, Thanksgiving 2009; Even Now, December 2009; Letting Go, October 2010; Epilogue 2012; Acknowledgments; Reading Group Guide.