The end of your life book club
By: Will Schwalbe
Publisher: Two Roads
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781444706376; 9781444706369; 9781444706383; 9781848949690
Subjects: Family relationships; Patients; Cancer; Biography
Description: Mary Anne Schwalbe was an educator who worked at Harvard University before devoting herself to the cause of refugees, as founding director of an organisation that brought her to the world's most desperate places. But her story here begins at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where, accompanied by her publisher son, she is waiting for chemotherapy treatments to begin. As they've always done, they talk about what they're reading, and the conversation grows into tradition: soon they are reading the same books in order to talk about them as Mary Anne is given her treatments. The books they read range from classic to popular, from fantastic to spiritual, and we hear their passion for reading and their love for each other in their dynamic and searching discussions around each one. They also explore how books tell you not only what you need to do in your own life but also in the world. An inspiring and profoundly moving book: Will's love letter to his mother, and theirs to the printed page.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Crossing to safety; title: Appointment in Samarra; title: Seventy verses on emptiness; title: Marjorie morningstar; title: The hobbit; title: Daily strength for daily needs; title: The people of the book; title: I am sorrow; title: The uncommon reader; title: The lizard cage; title: Frat farrar; title: Continental drift; title: The painted veil; title: Murder in the cathedral; title: Wherever you go, there you are; title: Kokoro; title: The price of salt; title: The reluctant fundamentalist; title: The year of magical thinking; title: Olive Kitteridge; title: Girls like us; title: Suite francaise; title: The bite of the mango; title: The elegance of the hedgehog; title: The girl with the dragon tattoo; title: Brooklyn; title: My father's tears; title: Too much happiness.