Life's That Way: A Memoir Tapa dura - 2009
de Jim Beaver
A special book about the end of one lifeand the beginning of another.
Life's That Way is a modern-day Book of Job. In August2003, Jim Beaver, a character actor whom many knowfrom the popular HBO series Deadwood, and his wifeCecily learned what they thought was the worst news possible-their daughter Maddie was autistic. Then six weeks laterthe roof fell in-Cecily was diagnosed with stage-four lungcancer.
Jim immediately began writing a nightly e-mail as a way tokeep more than one hundred family and friends up to date aboutCecily's condition. Soon four thousand people a day, from allaround the world, were receiving them. Initially a catharticexercise for Jim, the prose turned into an unforgettable journeyfor his readers.
Cecily died four months after being diagnosed, but Jim continuedthe e-mails for a year after her diagnosis, revealing howhe and Maddie coped with Cecily's death and how they managedto move forward. Life's That Way is a compilation of thosenightly e-mails. Jim's experience is universal for anybody whohas lost a loved one. But Life's That Way is not solely about loss.It is an immediate, day-by-day account of living through a nightmarebut also of discovering the joy of a child, of being on thereceiving end of unthinkable kindness, and of learning to navigatelife anew. As Jim says, these are hard-won blessings. Butthen again, life's that way.
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- Título Life's That Way: A Memoir
- Autor Jim Beaver
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición 1St Edition
- Páginas 303
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Amy Einhorn Books, New York
- Fecha de publicación 2009-04-16
- ISBN 9780399155642 / 0399155643
- Peso 1.11 libras (0.50 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.34 x 6.3 x 1.08 pulgadas (23.72 x 16.00 x 2.74 cm)
- Época de 18 a UP años
- Cursos 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Actors - United States, Beaver, Jim
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2008054497
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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